Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

I should perhaps have asked this before but, on page 25, Schedule 1 requires the Electoral Commission to, "““prepare accounts in respect of their expenditure in relation to the referendum””," only if, "““directed to do so by the Treasury””." Is the Treasury going to give such a direction? It seems extraordinary that we would not know what the expenditure of the Electoral Commission was on the referendum unless a direction had been given by the Treasury. It might be that this is, as it were, language which is always in, and that it will of course give that direction, but I thought that it was a very odd way of doing it. It would mean that we could not find out how much had been spent on the referendum, but you can bet your bottom dollar that there will be a lot of questions asked about how much the referendum cost at some stage.