Budget transfer relating to overspends on court, case costs, and police investigations

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A decision made 16 December 2009 regarding: Budget transfer relating to overspends on court, case costs, and police investigations.

Decision Reference: MD-TR-2009-0201
Decision Summary Title	Proposal for Transfer of Budgets to cover overspends on Court and Case Costs and Police Investigations		Date of Decision Summary:	04 December 2009
Decision Summary Author:	Head of Financial Reporting		Decision Summary: Public or Exempt?	Public
Type of Report: Oral or Written?	Written		Person Giving Oral Report:	N/A
Written Report Title:	Transfer between Revenue Heads of Expenditure		Date of Written Report:	04 December 2009
Written- Report Author:	Head of Financial Reporting		Written Report : Public or Exempt?	Public
Subject: Transfer of budgets from the Social Security Department to the Home Affairs and Non Ministerial Departments to address overspends in these Departments as a result of investigations currently undertaken by the Wiltshire Constabulary and Court and Case Costs.
Decision(s): The Minister approved the transfer of funds from the Social Security Department as follows: £606,000 was to Home Affairs and £1,794,000 to Non Ministerial Departments, with £220,000 of this allocated to the Bailiff’s Chambers and £1,574,000 to the Judicial Greffe. (MD-SSD-2009-70 ; MD-HA-2009-0108).
Reason(s) for Decision: The Departmental Quarterly Financial Reports for September 2009 show overspends in respect of the Home Affairs and Non Ministerial Departments. At its meeting on 12 November 2009 the Council of Ministers considered the consolidated Quarterly Financial Report of all States funded bodies for the period to 30 September 2009 and agreed that sums equivalent to the anticipated underspend in the Social Security Department and Economic Development Department for 2009 would be made available to help address overspends elsewhere.
Resource Implications: As above
Action required: Head of Financial Planning to be requested to effect the transfers as soon as possible.
Signature:		Position: Senator P F C Ozouf, Minister for Treasury and Resources
Date Signed:		Date of Decision (If different from Date Signed):

Budget transfer relating to overspends on court, case costs, and police investigations

Treasury & Resources Department Report for Minister
Subject:	Transfer between Revenue Heads of Expenditure
Exempt Clause:	n/a	Date:	4 December 2009
Author:	Head of Financial Reporting

Introduction

The purpose of this report is to ask the Minister to agree to the transfer of funds of £2.4 million from the Social Security Department to the Home Affairs and Non Ministerial Departments in order to meet overspends in these Departments for 2009.

Background

As the Minister is aware, the Departmental Quarterly Financial Reports for September 2009 reported overspends in the Home Affairs and Non Ministerial Departments.

At its meeting on 12 November 2009 the Council of Ministers considered the Departmental Quarterly Financial Reports of all States funded bodies for the period ending 30th September 2009. The Council noted the consolidated position and the forecast overspends identified by the Home Affairs Department and Non Ministerial Departments.

The Council was advised that the Minister for Social Security had agreed to make available sums equivalent to their anticipated under spend for 2009 to help address overspends elsewhere. The Council agreed that the sum of £2.4 million from the Social Security Department should be made available to Departments with forecast overspends. £791,000 will be made available to the Home Affairs Department and £1,794,000 will be available to the Non Ministerial Departments, of which £220,000 will be allocated to the Bailiff’s Chambers and £1,574,000 to the Judicial Greffe.

The Council noted that after the above transfers it was likely a further £1.1 million of any departmental surpluses at the year end would need to be transferred to address the residual shortfall on the Court and Case Costs budget.

Recommendations

It is recommended that the Minister:

approves the transfer of funds of £2.4 million from the Social Security Department of which £606,000 will be transferred to the Home Affairs Department and £1,794,000 to Non Ministerial Departments of which the Bailiff’s Chambers will be allocated £220,000 and £1,574,000 to the Judicial Greffe.