Although a lot of work has been put into the review and immediate gains have been secured, there is still quite a bit to do.The paper seeks our input to various items and asks us to consider what long-term work may be undertaken. Once the individual strands of the review are complete and their effects known, the committee may want to consider a more fundamental review of the three-stage process, for example.I suggest that we add a reference to the work that Arthur Midwinter has done with the budget advisers to other committees on dealing with stages 1 and 2 of the budget process.