Voluntary Redundancy: Transfer of Funds

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A decision made on 17 December 2010 regarding the transfer of funds relating to voluntary redundancy payments

Decision Reference: MD-TR-2010-0186
Decision Summary Title:	Transfers of funding relating to Voluntary Redundancy (VR) payments		Date of Decision Summary:	15th December 2010
Decision Summary Author:	Head of Decision Support		Decision Summary: Public or Exempt?	Public
Type of Report: Oral or Written?	Written		Person Giving Oral Report:	N/A
Written Report Title:	Transfers of funding relating to Voluntary Redundancy (VR) payments		Date of Written Report:	15th November 2010
Written Report Author:	Head of Decision Support		Written Report : Public or Exempt?	Public
Subject: Transfers of funding relating to Voluntary Redundancy (VR) payments
Decision(s): The Minister approved: the transfer of a total of £266,412 from the departments listed in the table below to the Chief Minister’s Department revenue head of expenditure for VR applications no longer going ahead: £ Planning and Environment 113,734 Health and Social Services 82,188 CMD - Human Resources 70,490 the transfer of a total of £58,093 from the Chief Minister’s Department revenue head of expenditure to the departments listed in the table below to reflect the additional 2% cost of VR applications proceeding after 31st December 2010: £ Judicial Greffe 3,100 CMD - Information Services 2,085 Planning and Environment 9,841 T&R - Jersey Property Holdings 2,702 Home Affairs 2,416 Health and Social Services 27,668 Transport and Technical Services 10,282 the transfer of the remainder of approved funding (£239,627) from P64/1010 for the VR scheme from the Treasury and Resources contingency to the Chief Minister’s Department revenue head of expenditure.
Reason(s) for Decision: MD-TR-2010-0159, signed on 12th November 2010, approved the initial allocation of £5,760,373 (out of the £6 million approved by the States in P64/2010) from Treasury and Resources to the Chief Minister’s Department, and onwards to departments, to meet the cost of approved voluntary redundancy payments. This decision makes further transfers to reflect: transfer back of funding where VR applications are no longer going ahead; uplift of previous transfers by 2% for agreed pay award where applicants are leaving after 31st December 2010; and transfer of the balance of approved P64/2010 funding for VRs from the Treasury and Resources contingency to the Chief Minister’s Department revenue head of expenditure – this balance amounts to £239,627. Article 15(1)(a) of the Public Finances (Jersey) Law 2005 permits the Minister for Treasury and Resources to approve that a head of expenditure may be used for the purposes of another head of expenditure. This decision further implements the States’ approval of P64/2010.
Resource Implications: There will be no increase to total approved States net revenue expenditure as a result of this decision.
Action required: Head of Decision Support to inform the Head of Financial Performance Reporting that the transfers have been approved.
Signature:		Position: Senator P F C Ozouf, Minister for Treasury and Resources
Date Signed:		Date of Decision: