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(1) The Board may direct a clinical commissioning group to supply it with such information relating to its accounts or to its income or expenditure, or its use of resources, as may be specified in the direction. (2) The power conferred by sub-paragraph (1) includes power to direct a clinical commissioning group to supply the Board with— (a) estimates of its future income or expenditure or its future use of resources; (b) any information which the Board considers is necessary to enable it to verify any other information supplied to it under sub-paragraph (1). (3) A clinical commissioning group must supply the Board with any information specified in a direction under sub-paragraph (1) within such period as may be specified in the direction. (4) In this paragraph, a reference to the use of resources is a reference to their expenditure, consumption or reduction in value.