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  Keith - a Minister does not do the actual work of complex actuarial calculations. Indeed in this case unless the Minister has specialist professional knowledge and training of their own they are entirely dependant on what the Civil Service say. Greening is a trained accountant but even so may not have knowledge in the specialism required to do that work but fortunately she did know enough to smell a rat and called in an appropriate auditor to review it.
  
  Like councillors Ministers are (supposedly) talented laymen who depend on the advice of their Civil Servants.
  
  This is both a strength and a weakness of our democratic system.
  
  Tom - no, nothing at all to do with a reshuffle, quite clearly.

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