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<p> </p><p>Core Defra's Governance arrangements ensure that a full schedule of pressures
and opportunities is prepared each month and reviewed by the Department's Group Management
Accounts team to ensure that Defra remains within its control totals, and each Director
remains within their approved budget. In addition, the schedule is signed off on a
quarterly basis by the Executive Committee via the Department's Finance Panel.</p><p>
</p><p> </p><p>With this process in place we have not had to table any over-runs to
the management board in the past 12 months.</p>
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