And since that fund is strictly for departmental expenditures, you can't pay anything back without admitting you used it contra regs.

It is made up of five sections - vision, Coalition priorities, structural reform plans, departmental expenditure and transparency.

While such agreements are no longer used, the committee retains its role in examining departmental expenditure, and will advise Cabinet on the allocation each department is to receive.

As well as highlighting the FCO's structural reform plan, departmental expenditure and commitment to transparency.

Our business plan includes our vision, our new objectives and the specific priorities we need to deliver, along with details of our departmental expenditure and transparency agenda.

The origins of this enquiry lay in an attempt by the Minister of Education, Florence Horsbrugh, to economise on departmental expenditure.

Following her election to power, Mrs Thatcher abolished PAR and introduced a new system of scrutiny of departmental expenditure - the Rayner scrutinies.

Gray and Jenkins (1984, p. 425) point to intraorganizational tensions created by the FMI: for example, between service departments on the one hand and the Treasury (and formerly also the Management and Personnel Office) on the other, with the latter fearing loss of control over departmental expenditure and manpower.

To be the Accounting Officer and as such to hold the ultimate responsibility for all departmental expenditure.

There is also evidence that bureaucratic advancement may be obtained by successful efforts to cut back on departmental expenditure.