Budget transfer from Restructuring Provision to Chief Minister's Department: E-Government Programme

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A decision made 2 June 2017:

Ministerial decision reference MD-C-2017-0075
Decision summary title Restructuring Provision Bid – Ongoing Revenue Costs
Decision summary author	Executive Support	Is the decision summary public or exempt?		Public
Report title Restructuring Provision Transfer to compete eGovernment Phase 1
Report author or name of person giving report	Executive Support	Is the report public or exempt?		Public
Decision and reason for the decision The Chief Minister accepted a non-recurring total budget transfer of £2,610,000 during 2017 to 2019 from the Restructuring Provision to the Chief Minister’s Department (CMD) revenue head of expenditure to enable Phase 1 of the eGovernment Programme to be completed.
Resource implications The CMD revenue head of expenditure to increase by up to £2,610,000 during 2017 to 2019, with the proposal to draw down £870,000 in each of the years, nevertheless, the amount in each year may be varied without exceeding the total amount for the three years. The restructuring Provision revenue head of expenditure to decrease by an identical amount. This decision does not change the total amount of expenditure approved by the States for 2017-2019 in the Medium Term Financial Plan. Beyond 2019, there will be an ongoing requirement for this funding to be incorporated into base budgets which will be a revenue growth bid for 2020 (MTFP3).
Action required Research and Policy Officer to advise the Finance Manager – Corporate Group that this decision has been approved.
Signature			Position Senator Andrew Green M.B.E. Deputy Chief Minister

Date signed			Effective date of the decision

Budget transfer from Restructuring Provision to Chief Minister's Department: E-Government Programme - Phase 1 Completion

Chief Minister’s Department

Ministerial Decision Report

Restructuring Provision Transfer TO COMPLETE EgOVERNMENT PHASE 1

Purpose of Report

To enable the Chief Minister to accept a revenue budget transfer in the sum of £2,610,000 across the years 2017 to 2019 from the Restructuring Provision to the Chief Minister’s Department (CMD) revenue head of expenditure to fund ongoing revenue costs.

Background

In March 2014, the Council of Ministers approved the eGovernment business case that requested a bid of £7,650,000 to the Restructuring Provision to fund eGovernment Phase 1, namely, to build an eGovernment platform (to design, build and deliver a number of new components and capabilities.

The business case requested not only the funding required for the eGov programme as set out above, but also included an indication of ongoing revenue requirement, being £2,900,000, to run the eGovernment platform when it was passed from the programme to business as usual. Whilst initially approved, and the need to run the platform understood, a growth bid for the revenue was rejected during the MTFP2 process due to greater funding pressures in other areas.

Recommendation

The Chief Minister to accept a budget transfer of £2,610,000 across the years 2017 to 2019 from the Restructuring Provision to the Chief Minister’s Department revenue head of expenditure to fund ongoing revenue costs.

Reason for Decision

Failure to invest in eGov delivery would require each department to establish their own approach to individual components. The cost of doing this is prohibitive making it highly unlikely to happen. Consequently, the interdependency between eGov and other transformation programmes means that failure to invest in eGov undermines not only this programme, but the benefits associated with all other programmes that depend on it.

Resource Implications

The CMD revenue head of expenditure to increase by up to £2,610,000 during 2017 to 2019, with the proposal to draw down £870,000 in each of the years, nevertheless, the amount in each year may be varied without exceeding the total amount for the three years. The restructuring Provision revenue head of expenditure to decrease by an identical amount.

This decision does not change the total amount of expenditure approved by the States for 2017-2019 in the Medium Term Financial Plan.

Report author : Executive Support, Chief Minister’s Department	Document date: 24th may 2017
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