All AUS Travel Budget Holders
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AUS TRAVEL BUDGETS
1991/92: MID-YEAR REVIEW
1.
As in previous years, we now need to review your present allocation in the light of your actual expenditure between April and September, and the expenditure you expect during the rest of the financial year. We should like to know whether you may be able to offer up any part of your allocation for redistribution, and if so, how much. Alternatively, do you think it possible that funds may become available in the next four months?
If your allocation is under such pressure that you cannot meet your essential commitments this financial year, it would be helpful to have an indication of what topping-up might be necessary. I must emphasise, however, that the overall cash limit for AUS travel remains unchanged: so we may only be able to meet bids for further funds if some AUS budget holders are underspent and agree that surplus funds can be re-allocated. If PSD can find savings elsewhere in its travel budgets I shall bear in mind that some AUSS can always make good use of extra cash.
2.
Finance Department's monitoring statistics for August should now be with your budget co-ordinator, and those for September will be available during the first week of October. On that basis, could I please have your offer (or essential bid) by close of play on 14 October. I shall assume that any budget holders not submitting offers/bids by then have nil returns so that funds can be redistributed as soon as possible thereafter.
3. Although you will no doubt wish to commission detailed costings for your own use (and in case RMD subsequently need to call for them), it will be sufficient for PSD's purposes to summarise any bids which you make. I attach a suggested pro-forma. I also attach a printout of current rates of subsistence.
1992/93: ESTIMATES
4. We shall shortly be preparing our 1992/93 estimates. It would be helpful to know how much you will need, bearing in mind that the FCO have already given the Treasury our PES bid. I should be grateful if you could return the estimate pro forma by 7 October. I recognise that this does not allow time for a detailed analysis of your travel programmes, but an estimate at this stage will be most helpful. The travel industry estimate that international
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