The long-term fiscal statement has an important message in terms of the long-term pressures on Government spending. At the same time, it's not a financial forecast. It can't be said to be any kind of accurate prediction of the future but a series of illustrative scenarios, extrapolating out some assumptions over a long period of time, and there are plenty of tables and graphs in that document. The fact is that the compounding effects of fiscal and policy decisions now will have significant impacts in the future, now and through to 2060. 