Budget and Transfer of Posts from Health and Social Services Department to Chief Minister's Department and Department of Community and Constitutional Affairs: Public Health Services Functions

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A decision made 12 May 2017:

Decision Reference: MD-TR-2017-0055
Decision Summary Title:	Transfer of Public Health Services functions from H&SS to CMD and CCA		Date of Decision Summary:	24th April 2017
Decision Summary Author:	Head of Decision Support		Decision Summary: Public or Exempt?	Public
Type of Report: Oral or Written?	Written		Person Giving Oral Report:
Written Report Title:	Transfer of budgets in respect of Public Health Services functions from H&SS to CMD and CCA		Date of Written Report:	28th April 2017
Written Report Author:	Medical Officer of Health and Assistant Director of Finance		Written Report : Public or Exempt?	Public
Subject: Transfer of recurring revenue budgets and associated Full Time Equivalent posts (FTEs) from the Health and Social Services Department (“H&SS”) to the Chief Minister’s Department (“CMD”) and the Department for Community and Constitutional Affairs (“CCA”) in respect of a range of Public Health Services functions.
Decision(s): The Minister approved the following transfers of budget and FTE and associated income and expenditure balances with effect from 1 January 2017. the transfer of a net recurring revenue budget in the sum of £896,300 and 12.0 FTE from the Health and Social Services Department to the Department for Community and Constitutional Affairs’ (“CCA”) revenue head of expenditure in respect of the Medical Officer of Health, Strategic Public Health Unit and Professional and Care Regulation functions. a recurring revenue budget transfer of £164,200 and 3.0 FTEs from the Health and Social Services Department to the Chief Minister’s Department (“CMD”) in respect of the Health Intelligence function.
Reason(s) for Decision: Article 18(1)(c) of the Public Finances (Jersey) 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 used for the purposes of another head of expenditure. To comply with P.67/1999 which charges the Minister for Treasury and Resources to regulate the number of persons that may be employed by the States and delegation 2.3 in which authority is delegated to the Treasurer of the States for agreeing non-contentious increases to States staffing levels. The decision is required in order to transfer resources from H&SS to CCA and CMD to: establish the Strategic Public Health Unit with the Chief Officer of CCA as accounting officer, transfer the Medical Officer of Health’s reporting line for strategy and policy to the Chief Minister, and transfer accounting officer responsibility for the Health Intelligence Unit to the Chief Officer of CMD.
Resource Implications: Health and Social Services Department revenue head of expenditure will decrease by a total of £1,060,500 and 15.0 FTEs with effect from 1 January 2017. The Community and Constitutional Affairs Department revenue head of expenditure will increase by £896,300 and 12.0 FTEs. The Chief Minister’s Department revenue head of expenditure will increase by £164,200 and 3.0 FTEs. This decision does not result in an increase to the net revenue budget or overall FTE of the States.
Action required: Head of Decision Support to advise the Acting Assistant Finance Director – HSSD and the Medical Officer of Health once this decision has been approved.
Signature:		Position: Senator A J H Maclean, Minister for Treasury and Resources
Date Signed:		Date of Decision: