Rolling Budgets
I thought I read somewhere that Hammond has got, or at least is trying to get, rolling budgets for agreed procurements so money not spent on a project in one financial year can be carried forward to the next, and that there is not this absolute nonsense of 'spend, spend, spend' before 5 April. Ride-on mowers, new carpets, four hundred years' worth of pencils... what sort of nonsense is that? Mind you, our Local Council works in exactly the same manner... one doesn't see anything being done by the roads folk all year, and then suddenly in March all the pavements outside the Councillors' houses are lovingly resurfaced...
If he has done that, and the comment by the Senior Orwficers is based on past practice, bravo zulu to Hammond. Anyone able to confirm or refute?