Budget Transfer: Economic Development, Tourism, Sport and Culture to Jersey Property Holdings (Jersey Archive extension)

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A decision made on 15 December 2017:

Decision Reference: MD-E-2017-0050
Decision Summary Title :	Transfer of budget from Economic Development Tourism Sport and Culture Department to Jersey Property Holdings, to meet the inflationary construction costs in constructing an extension to Jersey Archive		Date of Decision Summary:	14th December 2017
Decision Summary Author:	Deputy Chief Executive		Decision Summary: Public or Exempt?	Public
Type of Report: Oral or Written?	Written		Person Giving Oral Report:	Deputy Chief Executive
Written Report Title :	Transfer of budget from Economic Development, Tourism, Sport and Culture Department to Jersey Property Holdings, to meet the inflationary construction costs in constructing an extension to Jersey Archive		Date of Written Report:	14th December 2017
Written Report Author:	Deputy Chief Executive		Written Report : Public or Exempt?	Public
Subject: Transfer of budget from Economic Development Tourism Sport and Culture Department to Jersey Property Holdings to meet the inflationary construction costs in constructing an extension to Jersey Archive
Decision(s): The Minister for Economic Development Tourism Sport and Culture approved a one-off budget transfer from EDTS&C revenue head of expenditure of £360,000 in 2017, to the capital head of expenditure of Jersey Property Holdings, in order to meet inflationary costs in constructing an extension to Jersey Archive
Reason(s) for Decision: Following a procurement tender exercise carried out by Property Holdings on the Minister’s behalf, the levels of construction costs in tenders returned, significantly exceeded the capital budget agreed for the Jersey Archive extension project in 2015, as a result of inflationary increases in both materials and labour costs. As a consequence, there was a shortfall in capital funding of £360,000 in the overall project budget. In order to allow Jersey Property Holdings to accept the preferred tender price and avoid the potential of further inflationary costs through re-tendering, the EDTSC Minister approved a one-off budget transfer from EDTS&C revenue head of expenditure of £360,000 in 2017 to the capital head of expenditure of Jersey Property Holdings. Article 18(1)(c) 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 transferred from one head of expenditure to another head of expenditure for any purpose not otherwise specified. Delegation 1.2 delegates authority to agree non-contentious transfers between heads of expenditure up to £1,000,000 to the Treasurer of the States.
Resource Implications: The Jersey Property Holdings capital head of expenditure to increase by up to £360,000 in 2017 and the EDTS&C revenue head of expenditure to decrease by an identical amount.
Action required: The Minister for EDTS&C to request the approval of the Minister for Treasury and Resources for the budget transfer.
Signature: Senator L J Farnham		Position: Minister for Economic Development, Tourism, Sport and Culture
Date Signed:		Date of Decision (If different from Date Signed)