The budget line everyone missed
It runs to eleven words on page four hundred and changes how three programmes are funded.
Budget day generates headlines about totals. The consequential material is almost always buried in the technical annex nobody reads on camera.
This year's example is a reclassification that moves three programmes from one funding envelope into another, with no change to the top-line figure.
In practice it changes who approves the spending, how often it is reviewed and what happens if the money runs short mid-year.
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