ADMINISTRATION IN CONFIDENCE
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Mr. Mari's Mr. Hoare
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Assistant Under Secretaries Head of Planning
Head of Research Department Legal Adviser
cc: Heads of Departments
AUS DUTY TRAVEL BUDGETS
Remainder of current Financial Year
1.
Pl. speak at meeting
Bala
We are approaching the six-months review, and adjustment where necessary, of AUS duty travel budgets; and in my minute of 9 August I asked you to commission from your departments revised forecasts of demands for the remainder of this financial year. I should be most grateful for sight of these forecasts, including your own anticipated travel needs, as soon as possible. I hope that they will have taken into account the recent public expenditure cuts and the possibility of more to come.
Financial Year 1984/85
2.
I hesitate to burden your departments with more work, but we need now to plan for Financial Year 1984/85. By mid-October PGD is required to divine the amount of money needed for next year, in the fervent hope that it will be provided by the Chancellor. In the past, we have been required to produce estimates on the basis of current levels of expenditure, with an added inflation factor, and other adjustments; but they did not include forecasts other than of exceptional items of increased cost. Several AUSS have questioned the wisdon of apportioning this year's budgets on the basis of proportionate spending by their departments in Financial Year 1981/82. PSD recognised before the inception of the scheme that this was not a satisfactory formula, but we had to start somewhere.
3. In order to give you a more accurate budget to work on in April 1985 I should be grateful if you would commission forecasts of anticipated expenditure in Financial Year 1984/85 based on current fares and levels of subsistence. This may not prove too onerous for some of your departments who will recently have compiled such forecasts for other purposes. To lighten the task I have asked the Thomas Cook and British Airways implants to give priority to requests för fare quotations. Your departments' forecasts should identify travel requirements involving Legal Advisers, as these will form part of your budget and the present procedure will be simplified: If the forecasts can reach me by the first week of October this would allow PSD time for careful consideration and consultation, if necessary, with your departments.
20 September 1983
B Hannaby
Travel, Implant and Freight Unit Personnel Services Department
ALA
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