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Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR): Restructuring Provision - Budget Transfer

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A decision made 15 June 2012:

Decision Reference:

MD-PE-2012-0066

 

Decision Summary

Title :

 

CSR – Allocation of Restructuring Provision and Budget Receipt from Treasury and Resources

 

Date of Decision Summary:

15 June 2012

Decision Summary Author:

Senior Management Accountant, Department of the Environment

Decision Summary:

Public or Exempt?

(If Exempt state clauses from Code of Practice booklet)

Public

Type of Report:

Oral or Written?

Written

Person Giving

Oral Report:

N/A

Written Report

Title:

Comprehensive Spending Review Budget

Date of Written

Report:

15 June 2012

Written Report  Author:

Senior management Accountant, Department of the Environment

Written Report :

Public or Exempt?

(If Exempt State clauses from Code of Practice booklet)

Exempt 3.2.1 (a) (xi)

Subject:

Requests for Restructuring Provision funds in support of the Comprehensive Spending Review – transfer of budget from Treasury and Resources to Department of the Environment revenue head of expenditure.

Decision(s):

The Minister requested that the Minister for Treasury and Resources approve the following:

a)      a transfer of £140,000 in 2012 in support of the 2 CSR projects specified in the accompanying report to be funded from the Restructuring Provision; and

b)      that this be enacted through a 2012 budget transfer of £140,000 from the Restructuring Provision to the Department of the Environment under Article 2(6) of the Public Finances (Transitional Arrangements) (Jersey) Order 2011.

Reason(s) for decision:

To enable two specific projects within the CSR programme, to deliver changes that will yield in the order of £70,000 savings per annum.

Resource Implications:

The Treasury and Resources CSR Restructuring Provision to decrease by £140,000 in 2012 and the Department of the Environment revenue head of expenditure to increase by the same amount.

Action required:

The Finance Director of Department of the Environment to inform the Head of Financial Management Reporting and Accounting that the Minister has approved the transfer and request that the budget be transferred to Department of the Environment.

Signature: 

Position:

Date Signed:

 

Date of Decision:

15/06/2012

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