| Therefore, I have never disputed the fact that up until then there was a serious underspend in relation to infrastructure spend in the West. |
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| As I advised the member yesterday, I was informed 2 months ago of the underspend. |
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| In an environment where departments operate with significantly high vacancy rates the expectation is to have them underspend their budgets. |
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| A collision of mixed metaphors, perhaps, but the health underspend is a good illustration of all four conditions. |
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| She believes that the underspend was deliberately engineered by the company so that it could use the surplus to fund its other activities. |
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| He said it was based on an underspend in the past year, and when this was combined with inflation, the increase was virtually wiped out. |
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| We are required not to overspend, so there will always be a propensity to underspend. |
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| We had an underspend from the budget of 2001 and 2002, and we decided it was best targeted at a one-off project. |
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| Local government hung on to all its underspend for the new financial year. |
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| At the same time, poor planning and delivery mean that the province is expected to underspend on child-support grants, food parcels and the building of houses. |
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| If you can keep trying to underspend by a little bit here and there and reduce your overdraft accordingly each time, you'll soon find that you don't have one anymore. |
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| Some of the £30m is expected to come from an underspend on the £250m set aside to roll out superfast broadband across the country. |
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| Labour's narrative was once devastatingly clear: the revenues from a buoyant economy should correct the historic underspend on public services. |
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| The underspend is entirely related to the year 2002, for which EUR 400 million were entered in the budget. |
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| This is money which was already budgeted for and which will be given back to the Member States because of an underspend. |
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| The allocation also reflected a substantial underspend in the previous three years. |
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| We are talking about an underspend in budget appropriations that were approved at the time by the European Parliament. |
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| A number of projectspecific reasons were provided justifying this underspend. |
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| The budget allocation for fisheries was EUR 14 million, EUR 9.3 million of which was spent, an underspend of EUR 4.7 million. |
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| There was an underspend on food aid of EUR 41.2 million, mainly on account of less being spent on aid for the needy and for school milk. |
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| The underspend was mainly due to lower than budgeted staff costs and the receipt of VAT refunds delayed from the previous year. |
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| They tended to underspend budgets rather than overspend budgets. |
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| It was an underspend, but that money is all promised and expected. |
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| He said he would be calling for a probe to find out why the underspend was not picked up earlier. |
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| For the Project Office for the Permanent Premises, the low implementation rate of 66.2 per cent is attributable to delays in the Permanent Premises processes, leading to an underspend in contractual services. |
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| The Court advised that the underspend had been due to lower staff costs and recruitment delays, and that the staffing gap had been covered by staff working excessive hours for sustained periods of time. |
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| The remaining £10m of cuts is apparently meant to come from department underspend and efficiencies that arise as a result of lower than anticipated inflation. |
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| Yet the challenges now facing the EU cannot justify this underspend. |
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| The outturn for rural development programmes in 2001 of EUR 4 363.8 million was an underspend of EUR 131.2 million compared to the budget allocation of EUR 4 495.0 million. |
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| The underspend was largely due to savings on aid paid out to farmers and poor regions, the European Commission said yesterday. |
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| Budgets get passed all the time but governments will underspend budgets. |
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| New proposals to cut some regional programmes in Northern and Central Italy are expected to arrive to Brussels shortly, together with plans to transfer the regional underspend to another new programme run by Rome ministries. |
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| In response to the draft budget, Mr Wigley also criticised the Assembly's underspend figures. |
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| It is true that some suffer from underspend. |
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| It would be like pouring water in a barrel with an open tap, because Canadian broadcasters are free to overspend on buying American programs and free to underspend on producing local programming. |
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| A fair guess is that it will underspend its budget by £660m or so. |
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| I have been told that the underspend would have met the need. |
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| This year, the underspend was pounds 634million, following hot on the heels of pounds 435million and pounds 718million in the two preceding years. |
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| The largest underspend identified was at the Department of Culture's Space for Sport and Arts project, set up in 2000 to provide sport and arts facilities for primary schools. |
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