Treasury and Resources
Ministerial Decision Report
ALLOCATION FROM CENTRAL CONTINGENCIES – CYBER SECURITY STRATEGY
- Purpose of Report
To approve a non-recurring allocation of up to £756,000 in 2017, up to £544,000 in 2018 and up to £644,000 in 2019 from Central Contingencies to the Chief Minister’s Department revenue head of expenditure and an increase of 2.0 FTE for 3 years for the implementation of the Cyber Security Strategy.
- Background
On 9th November 2016 the Council of Ministers approved the draft Cyber Security Strategy and agreed to launch a public consultation. To enable the implementation of the Cyber Security Strategy the Council of Ministers also agreed to request that the Treasury and Resources Minister allocates a total of £2.02m to the Chief Minister’s Department.
In the intervening period the Chief Minister’s Department has had the opportunity to refine the timescales for commencing the Strategy’s publication and consequently the implementation will now take place in 2017. As a result the total cost of implementation will decrease from £2.02m to a maximum cost of £1.94m.
Funding will be assigned as follows:
Cyber security strategy key requirements | 2016 £000s | 2017 £000s | 2018 £000s | 2019 £000s | Total £000s |
1. Conduct bi-annual island-wide cyber security reviews | 0 | 100 | 0 | 100 | 200 |
2. Define minimum cyber security requirements | 0 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
3. Create an cyber incident response entity capable of responding to island wide cyber incidents | 0 | 206 | 206 | 206 | 618 |
4. Plan for the future cyber landscape | 0 | 50 | 30 | 30 | 110 |
5. Educate for the future | 0 | 80 | 38 | 38 | 156 |
6. Jersey Information Security Officer role | 0 | 150 | 150 | 150 | 450 |
7. Criminal specialist | 0 | 60 | 60 | 60 | 180 |
8. Project manager role | 0 | 60 | 60 | 60 | 180 |
Total | 0 | 756 | 544 | 644 | 1,944 |
3. Recommendation
The Minister is recommended to approve a non-recurring allocation of up to £756,000 in 2017, up to £544,000 in 2018 and up to £644,000 in 2019 from Central Contingencies to the Chief Minister’s Department revenue head of expenditure and an increase of 2.0 FTE for 3 years.
4. Reason 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 to heads of 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.10/2012) sets the requirement for all allocations from Contingency to be considered by the Council of Ministers prior to submission to the Minister for approval.
To comply with P67/1999 which charges the Minister for Treasury and Resources to regulate the number of persons that may be employed by the States and delegation 2.3 in which authority is delegated to the Treasurer of the States for agreeing non-contentious increases to States staffing levels
On 9th November 2016 the Council of Ministers approved the draft Cyber Security Strategy.
A decision (MD-2017-0052) was signed by the Chief Minister on 12th May 2017.
5. Resource Implications
The Chief Minister’s Department revenue head of expenditure will increase up to £756,000 in 2017, up to £544,000 in 2018 and up to £644,000 in 2019 and Central Contingences will decrease by identical amounts. The FTE of CMD to increase by 2.0 for 3 years.
This decision does not change the total amount of expenditure approved by the States in the Medium Term Financial Plan 2017-2019.
Report author : Head of Decision Support | Document date 15th January 2017 |
Quality Assurance / Review : Director of Financial Planning and Performance | File name and path: L:\Treasury\Sections\Corporate Finance\Ministerial Decisions\DS, WR and SD\2016-0063 - Cyber Security Strategy |
MD sponsor : Director of Financial Planning and Performance |