Is work preparing hearing and trial bundles chargeable?

“The assembling and pagination of bundles are generally to be regarded as administrative or secretarial tasks the costs of which are taken into account within the hourly rate of the fee earners involved; it is not generally separately chargeable (cf work done on preparing an index and deciding what documents should be included in a bundle) (see 3E PD.4).” – from Costs Judge Simon Brown’s Note on costs budgeting in the King’s Bench involving high value personal injury claims

This mirrors the guidance in PD 3D as to work not to include in a costs budget: “Assembling and/or copying the bundle (this is not fee earners’ work)”.