Chief Minister’s Department
Ministerial Decision Report
Restructuring Provision Transfer for WORKFORCE MODERNISATION
- Purpose of Report
To enable the Chief Minister to accept a revenue budget transfer in the sum of £269,991.00 in 2017 from the Restructuring Provision to the Chief Minister’s Department (CMD) revenue head of expenditure to fund Workforce Modernisation.
- Background
A Restructuring Provision bid was presented to the Council of Ministers on 27th January 2016 seeking funding to support Workforce Modernisation during the 2016-2019 MTFP2 period. At that time, the Council agreed the 2016 funding and agreed in principle, the request for funding for 2017.
A Restructuring Provision bid was represented to the Council of Ministers on 9th March 2017 seeking funding to support Workforce Modernisation for 2017 (£269,991 for 2017 had previously been agreed in principle on 27th January 2016), in the sum of £269,991. The Council agreed the request for £269,991 that had previously been agreed in principle.
The table below sets out both the original and revised requests.
Business Case: Finances | Workforce Modernisation Programme |
MTFP2 Period | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | Total |
COM Approved and In-Principal Approval | £753,000 | £269,991 | £0 | £0 | £1,022,991 |
Requested | £753,000 | £269,991 | £0 | £0 | £1,022,991 |
Underspend requested to be carried forward | -£506,233 | £506,233 | | | £0 |
| | | | Variance | £0 |
The fundamental purpose of Workforce Modernisation is to build a harmonised framework for pay, policies, terms and conditions that meets good practice and is compliant with the new (and imminent) legislation; rationalising over 20 pay structures to 5 through a new job evaluation method. The harmonising of policies, terms and conditions also ensures equal treatment across the workforce and will enable free movement across departments in response to changing customer and service needs.
- Recommendation
The Chief Minister to accept a budget transfer of £269,991.00 in 2017 from the Restructuring Provision to the Chief Minister’s Department revenue head of expenditure to fund Workforce Modernisation.
The accepted budget should be allocated in accordance with the Council approved business case, as follows:
F3A200 - PSR - Culture - Performance Mg | £14,016.00 |
F3A300 - Policies, Terms & Conditions | £95,430.00 |
F3A400 - Pay Reward | £64,623.00 |
F6C208 - PSR - WM Assimilation Team | £95,922.00 |
| £269,991.00 |
- Reason for Decision
The Council of Ministers acknowledged that investment will be required to ensure Public Sector Reform is successful, and approved various requests at a meeting on 27th January 2016.
- Resource Implications
The CMD revenue head of expenditure to increase by £269,991.00 in 2017. The Restructuring Provision revenue head of expenditure to decrease by an identical amount and the temporary FTE in CMD to increase by one to provide a Workforce Modernisation with a total temporary nine FTE.
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 : Portfolio Analyst, Chief Minister’s Department | Document date: 15th March 2017 |
Quality Assurance / Review : | File Path: L:Drive/Fileplan/100 Corporate/Executive/01-CM/13-MDs/2017 |
MD sponsor : Chief Minister |