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of the Amazon Trusted Research Environment (TRE) had been delayed and this had not yet been claimed.

• ICT expenditure is below budget because the Amazon TRE being procured for the PASF will be claimed under the Professional Services Cost heading, rather than ICT as planned. Following the later than planned implementation of the TRE, the operation will then be able to procure the necessary hardware.

Table 2-2: Expenditure to January 2023 (£000s) Total expenditure to Jan 2023 Budget to Jan 2023

Variance to Jan 2023

Percentage of budget spent to Jan 2023

Estates

739

745

7

99%

ICT

137

249

112

55%

Staff

2,200

2,219

19

99%

Administration

51

51

0

100%

Marketing / Promotion

19

57

38

33%

Travel

9

16

7

56%

Training Costs

3

8

5

35%

Professional services

31

211

180

15%

Flat rate

508

703

195

72%

Total

3,696

4,259

563

87%

Source: LILW Variance by Claim (includes ERDF and SU match funding)

2.7 Error! Reference source not found. shows the variance between actual cumulative expenditure and budgeted expenditure by claim period. To the point of the re-profile in September 2021, there was a consistent and substantive underspend. Positively, since the re- profile, actual expenditure has aligned more closely overall with the planned expenditure. However, this said, there has been a consistent and material underspend (from 13% to 19% underspend) since the Mid-Term Evaluation point. Whilst this validates the case for the re- profile in late-2021, it suggests that the revised financial profile for operation was still not fully realistic and deliverable over its final 18 months of delivery.

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