Comprehensive Spending Review: Allocation of Restructuring Provision and Budget Transfers

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A decision made on 2 Ocotber 2012:

Decision Reference: MD-TR-2012-0085
Decision Summary Title:	CSR – Allocation of Restructuring Provision and Budget Transfers		Date of Decision Summary:	26 September 2012
Decision Summary Author:	Comprehensive Spending Review Programme Director		Decision Summary: Public or Exempt?	Public
Type of Report: Oral or Written?	Written		Person Giving Oral Report:	N/A
Written Report Title:	CSR – Allocation of Restructuring Provision and Budget Transfers		Date of Written Report:	26 September 2012
Written Report Author:	Comprehensive Spending Review Programme Director		Written Report : Public or Exempt?	Exempt 3.2.1 (a) (x)
Subject: Approval of requests for Restructuring Provision funds in support of the Comprehensive Spending Review programme and transfer of budgets to the Chief Minister’s, Economic Development and Home Affairs Departments.
Decision(s): The Minister approved: (a) four requests totalling £492,600, the funding for which was agreed by the Council of Ministers on 20 September 2012, in support of the Comprehensive Spending Review to be funded from the Restructuring Provision; and (b) budget transfers of £387,600 and £105,000 in 2012 and 2013 respectively from the Restructuring Provision to the Chief Minister’s, Economic Development and Home Affairs Departments, under Article 2(6) of the Public Finances (Transitional Arrangements) (Jersey) Order 2011.
Reason(s) for Decision: The States recognised the need to invest funds to achieve savings when it approved a Restructuring Provision in the 2011 and 2012 budgets and the Council of Ministers acknowledges that further investment will be needed to ensure Public Sector Reform is successful. The draft MTFP has earmarked funds to provide for this funding over the next three years. Article 15(1)(a) of the Public Finances (Jersey) Law 2005 states that all or any part of the amount appropriated by a head of expenditure may, with the approval of the Minister for Treasury and Resources, be used for the purposes of another head of expenditure.
Resource Implications: The Restructuring Provision to decrease by £387,600 and £105,000 in 2012 and 2013 respectively and: (a) the Chief Minister’s Department’s revenue head of expenditure to increase by £161,100 and £105,000 in 2012 and 2013 respectively; (b) the Economic Development Department’s revenue head of expenditure to increase by £156,500 in 2012; and (c) the Home Affairs Department’s revenue head of expenditure to increase by £70,000 in 2012. This decision does not change the total amount of expenditure approved by the States for 2012. Following approval of this decision, £4.1 million will remain in the Restructuring Provision at the end of 2013.
Action required: Head of Financial Management, Accounting and Reporting to notify the Comprehensive Spending Review Programme Director that this decision has been approved.
Signature:		Position: Senator P F C Ozouf, Minister for Treasury and Resources
Date Signed:		Date of Decision: