underspend
Britishverb
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“It’s the right strategy. The greater risk is to underspend and to be left with a competitive disadvantage.”
He said there had been a council underspend and £1.9m has been earmarked to pay for changes.
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RMG disputed Park View Court had fallen into a state of disrepair and said service costs were audited, with any underspend returned.
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Its assumption of an underspend of £2.9bn published in its Economic and Fiscal Outlook would "very likely have been dropped" and instead it would have made a "materially higher" forecast for spending this year.
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It comes after a government report confirmed there had been a £358m underspend in the agricultural budget across last three years.
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