Mr. John Field:

Given that the Deputy's question is specifically about expenses, expense claims can arise from any part of the university. Obviously, any employee can make an expense claim. In terms of policy, each employee of the university is obliged to follow our travel and subsistence policy in the making of a claim. The first step in the making of a claim is that an employee, having incurred expenses in the course of his or her duties, will prepare a claim. The process then is his or her supervisor signs off on that claim - the supervisor would be aware that he or she would be travelling or whatever. The claim, once approved by the supervisor, flows into finance then. Within finance, the first port of call is the expenses administrator. That was the post which was held previously by person A. The expenses administrator will check the claim has been approved and is in accordance with policy. Then, within our finance department, we have a structure, depending on where the claim originates, such as whether it is related to research or the recurrent budget or whether it is over a certain value. That will determine who signs off on it within finance.