Department of Children, Disability and Equality Internal guidelines that were in place in your body on 01/01/2024 regarding approval or authorisation of personal expenditure (expenditure on goods or services to be provided directly to the individual) by the Secretary General or Accounting Officer. Internal guidelines in place on 31/10/2024 regarding the same matter. Any instruction issued since 25/09/2024 to review expenditure approval processes for staff at any grade. The outcome of any such review [of expenditure approval processes]. A list of all expenditure which was approved solely by a person at Secretary General, Deputy Secretary General or Assistant Secretary General level in 2023 or 2024.