Budget Transfers to various Departments: Implementation of Care Inquiry Recommendations

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A decision made 15 December 2017:

Decision Reference: MD-TR-2017-0153
Decision Summary Title:	Contingency funding to various departments for implementation of Care Inquiry recommendations		Date of Decision Summary:	12th December 2017
Decision Summary Author:	Head of Decision Support		Decision Summary: Public or Exempt?	Public
Type of Report: Oral or Written?	Written		Person Giving Oral Report:
Written Report Title:	Contingency funding to various departments for implementation of Care Inquiry recommendations		Date of Written Report:	12th December 2017
Written Report Author:	Head of Decision Support		Written Report : Public or Exempt?	Public
Subject: Non-recurring allocation of up to £3,066,569 over the years 2017-2019 to various departments for implementation of Care Inquiry recommendations.
Decision(s): The Minister approved the non-recurring allocation of up to £3,066,569 over the years 2017-2019 to various departments for implementation of Care Inquiry recommendations. The Minister also approved 19.4 additional permanent full time equivalent (FTE) staff.
Reason(s) for Decision: Article 17(2) of the Public Finances (Jersey) Law 2005 states that the Minister for Treasury and Resources is authorised to approve the transfer from contingency expenditure of amounts not exceeding, in total, the amount available for contingency expenditure in a financial year. The current Contingency Allocation Policy (published as R.110/2017) sets the requirement for all allocations from Contingency over £100,000 to be considered by the Council of Ministers prior to submission to the Minister for approval. The Council of Ministers approved this allocation by lodging P.108/2017 Independent Jersey Care Inquiry Report: implementation of recommendations.
Resource Implications: The Central Contingencies balance to decrease by £3,066,569 and the revenue heads of expenditure of various departments as detailed in the attached report to increase by a total of an identical amount. The £3,066,569 in total is proposed to be drawn down as £165,091 in 2017, £1,611,429 in 2018 and £1,290,049 in 2019 but the amount for each year may be varied without exceeding the total amount for the three years. The additional expenditure to the end of 2019 was estimated at £2,895,897 in P.108/2017. This estimate has since been revised to £3,066,569. Departments will be able to draw down up to the amounts set out in Appendix 7 of the proposition once the Treasurer of the States has been provided with reasonable evidence that expenditure has been incurred or needs to be committed. Those drawdowns will then be effected by documented decision of the Treasurer. The number of permanent FTE staff employed by the States will increase by 19.4. This decision does not change the total amount of expenditure approved by the States for 2017 – 2019 in the Medium Term Financial Plan. Additional recurring expenditure of £1,197,549 will be the subject of growth bids to the next MTFP.
Action required: Head of Decision Support to advise the relevant Finance Directors once this decision has been approved.
Signature:		Position: Senator A J H Maclean, Minister for Treasury and Resources
Date Signed:		Date of Decision: