Member

The framework document is therefore focused on the corporate governance of the public body to ensure it aligns with the best practice set out in Managing Public Money and is clear on its expectations to be fully accountable to the department. This is a commitment from the Dispatch Box by the Minister who is taking the Bill through that there will be a framework document and it will cover the areas that I have mentioned. I cannot give an exact timing; it is simply not possible. We do not yet know. We do not know how long it is going to take. Clearly, we want it to be done as quickly as possible, but it needs to be done thoroughly and it will take a matter of months. I am afraid that that is as far as I can go on that.