Ref: XEG 354/18
MANAGEMENT-IN-CONFIDENCE
To:
All AUS s
Mr Burns RA 1/4 4321/4
AUS TRAVEL BUDGETS 1991/92
1.
From:
RG Short, PSD
12 April 1991
Date:
CC: Mr Chase, RMD
We have now been able, having taken advice from RMD, to draw
up AUS budgets for the current financial year. This has been
delayed a little because some bids were received late.
2. Your allocation is £ 128, 800. The total quantity of bids for
"necessary" travel almost exactly equalled the total sum available
in the budget for AUS travel: therefore we have been able to meet
all "necessary" bids in full, but no "desirable" bids. However, PSD
will seek to top-up AUS travel budgets from savings elsewhere during
the course of the year, so that at least some "desirable" travel may
go ahead.
At the end of the last financial year, you were advised
that funds were available for you to book forward, so that some AUSS at least will have been able to pay for this year's necessary travel
out of last year's funds, thus releasing some of this year's funds
for desirable travel. During the course of this year, we shall aim
to top you up as soon as we can safely do so, in order to help your
planning; but you will appreciate that at this stage I can give no
guarantees.
3.
I should like to take this opportunity to make two comments about travel bookings.
(i)
Route Deals
We now have route deals, the details of which are commercially
confidential, with eight major airlines. The essence of these is
that, if during the year we exceed a certain number of journeys on
any of these airlines, we receive a substantial rebate (about a year
later). This rebate is used to finance travel which we could not
otherwise afford; not only AUS travel, but also recreational
journeys from difficult posts, children's concessionary journeys
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