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3 terms
ALB
Arms length body
AME
Annually Managed Expenditure
Expenditure that is relatively volatile and largely demand-led, which cannot reasonably be given firm, multi-year limits in the same way as DEL. AME includes social security benefits, local authority self-financed expenditure, debt interest and payments to EU institutions. Levels of AME spending are normally forecast rather than targeted.
AWDL
Average working days lost