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The Chief Finance Officer submitted a report and elaborated thereon and noted the General Fund outturn for controllable service budgets showed an underspend of just under £1.4 million and referred to table 2 of the report which outlined the proposed use of the 2016/17 underspend. It was further noted that some of the underspends were staff related savings but that some of them would have offset expenditure on temporary and agency staff to deal with capacity issues. In response to questions asked, it was reported that should Northampton Partnership Homes (NPH) have an underspend, they would retain that for the next financial year but that they would need to demonstrate to the Council how the money would be spent.

RESOLVED:

That the contents of the finance report be considered.