Day 166 - 28 Sep 95 - Page 29
1 MS. STEEL: How many pages in is that?
2 A. Go to January, there is a fourth one, fourth one back,
3 left-hand side, it runs under the column of current year.
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5 Q. Right. So, effectively, you got it bang on target?
6 A. Yes.
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8 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You were a bit above the next month, a bit
9 below the next?
10 A. I am a bit below the next month. 15.79 was the next
11 month.
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13 Q. A bit below the next, a little more below the next,, about
14 .9 nine below the next.
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16 MS. STEEL: So the Company would have been pleased with your
17 results?
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19 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Pleased with your results and pleased with
20 their budget forecasts?
21 A. It shows obviously a good sales forecast and a good
22 labour forecast. It is a guideline. It is not like, you
23 know, I was not hung, drawn and quartered if I did not
24 achieve it. The budget is a guideline. It is based on
25 historics. It is based on various things which I said
26 earlier.
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28 MS. STEEL: What was the most you ever went over the budget?
29 A. I do not recall.
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31 Q. You do not remember?
32 A. In this period of time?
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34 Q. Did you ever go over the budget?
35 A. Yes.
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37 Q. You did.
38 A. In this period of time that relates to this statement?
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40 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
41 A. I have not got 1986's budget so I could not honestly
42 answer that question.
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44 MS. STEEL: So you do not know?
45 A. No.
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47 Q. So in the evidence that we have got in front of us, you
48 never went over the budget?
49 A. No -- for those four months that you can see there, no.
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51 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, we have only got four months where we can
52 make a comparison.
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54 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I am not terribly impressed by that point at
55 the moment. (To the witness): You remember you went over
56 the budget on occasions and, rightly or wrongly, your
57 evidence is you were not hung drawn and quartered if you
58 did?
59 A. That is right.
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