DB - think we are both correct. All applications to carry over excess leave denied due to individuals not having enough time next leave year to take it. Oh yes and the blatant admission about it looking bad against the performance targets.
Rant on: It absolutely stinks. Of course, taking this approach will make people further up the food chain look good, but the high paid help in the ivory towers will just carry on regardless - "oh look there isn't a leave problem, nobody has carried over more than 15 days".
I wonder what the reaction would be if I sent them a bill for the days I couldn't take due to ops that they won't let me carry over? It might even be worth the one-way hats-on! I don't expect to get things for free when I employ contractors and the like to come into Melchett Towers; why the hell should the MOD expect its people to work for free. Rant off.
That feels a bit better.