Historical Child Abuse: Committee of Inquiry: Allocation from Central Contingency Funding

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A decision made 17 March 2014:

Decision Reference: MD-TR-2014-0021
Decision Summary Title:	Central Contingency Funding Request for the Committee of Inquiry into Historical Child Abuse	Date of Decision Summary:		13th March 2014
Decision Summary Author:	Projects Director	Decision Summary: Public or Exempt?		Public
Type of Report: Oral or Written?	Written	Person Giving Oral Report:		N/A
Written Report Title:	Central Contingency Funding Request for the Committee of Inquiry into Historical Child Abuse	Date of Written Report:		13th March 2014
Written Report Author:	Projects Director	Written Report : Public or Exempt?		Public
Subject: Committee of Inquiry into Historical Child Abuse – allocation of Central Contingency funding.
Decision(s): The Minister approved the allocation of up to £6,000,000 from Central Contingency (emerging items) to the States Greffe – States Assembly head of expenditure, for the purposes of funding the Committee of Inquiry into Historical Child Abuse. The Minister further approved that this allocation should be transferred as follows in 2014:- A budget transfer of £1,300,000 in March 2014; The remaining allocation of up to £4,700,000 will be transferred on approval by the Treasurer of the States under a delegated decision(s) in tranches of up to £1,000,000 on request from the States Greffe Accounting Officer. The Greffier of the States is in agreement with the above proposed budget transfer arrangements with these being slightly different in 2014 from the approval given by the Council of Ministers in their meeting of the 10th July 2013.
Reason(s) for decision: Article 17(2) of the Public Finances (Jersey) Law 2005 states that the Minister for Treasury and Resources is authorised to approve the transfer from contingency expenditure to heads of expenditure of amounts not exceeding, in total, the amount available for contingency expenditure in a financial year. The States at its meeting on 6th March 2013 adopted, as amended, the proposition in P.118/2012 -Committee of Inquiry: Historical Child Abuse. In his lodged comments to P.118/2012 the Minister for Treasury and Resources recommended, that if the proposition were approved, that up to £6,000,000 be allocated from Central Contingency. Such an allocation would be required to follow the approved and published procedures for the Central Contingencies (R.10/2012).
Resource Implications: Central Contingency (emerging items) will decrease by £1,300,000 in 2014 and if approved by the Treasurer of the States under a delegated decision(s) will decrease by up to a further £4,700,000 in 2014. The States Greffe – States Assembly head of expenditure will increase by identical amounts.
Action required: Business Manager to advise the Financial Performance Reporting Manager and the Greffier of the States that this decision has been approved.
Signature:			Position: Senator P.F.C. Ozouf, Minister for Treasury and Resources
Date Signed:			Date of Decision: