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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MD sponsor : Chief Minister |