Budget Transfer: Central Contingencies to Chief Minister's Department (2015 & 2016 Voluntary Release Scheme Costs)

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A decision made 13 July 2016:

Ministerial decision reference: MD-C-2016-0080
Decision summary title: Transfer of funding between the Chief Ministers Department and Central Contingencies to recognise the savings and costs associated with the Voluntary Release Schemes in 2015 and 2016.
Decision summary author	Finance Manager - Corporate Group	Is the decision summary public or exempt?		Public
Report title:
Report author or name of person giving report	N/A	Is the report public or exempt?		N/A
Decision and reason for the decision The Chief Minister approved a non-recurring budget transfer of £471,026 in 2016 from the Chief Minister’s Department revenue head of expenditure to Central Contingency – Budget Measures to recognise the 2016 savings associated with the 2015 Voluntary Release Scheme and £110,298 non-recurring budget transfer to the Chief Minister’s Department revenue head of expenditure from Central Contingency – Redundancy Provision for VR Applications approved and signed up to 30th June 2016.
Resource implications Chief Minister’s Department revenue head of expenditure to decrease by a total of £471,026 in 2016 and the Central Contingency – Budget Measures to increase by an identical amount. Chief Minister’s Department revenue head of expenditure, as outlined in the attached report, to increase by a total of £110,298 and Central Contingency – Redundancy Provision to decrease by an identical amount. This decision does not change the total amount of expenditure approved by the States for the period of the current MTFP 2016 to 2019.
Action required Research and Policy Officer to advise Finance Manager – Corporate Group that this decision has been approved.
Signature			Position Senator I J Gorst Chief Minister

Date signed			Effective date of the decision