Comprehensive Spending Review: Budget Transfer from Restructuring Provision

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A decision made on 2 January 2013:

Decision Reference: MD-ESC-2012-0030
Decision Summary Title:	CSR – Allocation of Restructuring Provision and Budget Transfers		Date of Decision Summary:	17 December 2012
Decision Summary Author:	Christine Walwyn Finance 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:	17 December 2012
Written Report Author:	Christine Walwyn Finance Director		Written Report : Public or Exempt?	Exempt 3.2.1 (a) (x)
Subject: Transfer of funding from Restructuring Provision funds in support of the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) programme and transfer of budget from Treasury to Education, Sport and Culture.
Decision(s): The Minister accepted a budget transfer of £306,300 from the Restructuring Provision to the Education Sport and Culture Department (ESC), the funding for which was agreed by the Council of Ministers on 29 November 2012, in support of the CSR programme.
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 MTFP has earmarked funds to provide for this funding over the next three years. Article 2(6) of the Public Finances (Transitional Arrangements) (Jersey) Order 2011 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: Education Sport and Culture Department’s revenue head of expenditure to increase by £306,300 in 2013 and the Restructuring Provision to decrease by the same amount. This decision does not change the total amount of expenditure approved by the States for 2013.
Action required: Finance Director Education, Sport and Culture to liaise with Treasury and Resources to effect the budget move
Signature:		Position: Deputy Patrick Ryan Minister for Education, Sport and Culture
Date Signed:		Date of Decision: