I think the deputy mentioned, and we mentioned in the report too, that one of the issues that created the extra surplus was uncertainty of certain funding coming into the department and only getting confirmation of that quite late in the year. That's an issue we've raised in previous reports that we've done on the expenditure management system, where sometimes departments actually get funds confirmed to them almost at year end, and of course it's impossible for them to spend those moneys. So it's the way in which the funding is actually confirmed to departments, too, that has a big impact on this, and not simply the spending within the department.
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