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Comprehensive Spending Review: Education, Sport and Culture: Restructuring Provision: Allocation Budget Adjustment - Reduction

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A decision made 16 September 2011 regarding:

Decision Reference:  MD-TR-2011-0118

Decision Summary Title:

CSR – Adjustment to Allocation of Restructuring Provision and Budget Transfer to ESC

Date of Decision Summary:

06 September 2011

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:

Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) – Adjustment to Allocation of Restructuring Provision and Budget Transfer to ESC

Date of Written Report:

06 September 2011

Written Report Author:

Comprehensive Spending Review Programme Director

Written Report :

Public or Exempt?

Exempt 3.2.1 (a) (i)

Subject: Approval to an adjustment to MD-TR-2011-0039 relating to a reduction in the ESC request for Restructuring provision funding following States approval of P72 as amended (Grant Aided Schools: Grants).

Decision(s):  The Minister, with reference to MD-TR-2011-0039, approved:

(a)   A reduction to the total amount previously approved in support of the CSR process to be funded from the Restructuring Provision by £709,300, £639,000 and £455,100 in 2011, 2012 and 2013 respectively (making amended totals of £2,424,400, £856,000 and £165,900 for those three years respectively); and

(b)   An amendment to the 2011 budget transfer from the Restructuring Provision to Education, Sport and Culture from £1,326,000 to £616,700 under Article 15(1)(a) of the Public Finances (Jersey) Law 2005.

Reason(s) for Decision:  The States approval of P72 as amended effectively postponed CSR savings in ESC amounting to over £7 million. Most of the ESC request for Restructuring Provision funding related to support to fee paying schools which is now on hold and, therefore, this funding is not required. There is also a reduction in funding for general CSR support to the department given the reduction in the savings proposals currently being progressed.

 

Article 15(1)(a) 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 used for the purposes of another head of expenditure.

Resource Implications:  The T&R revenue head of expenditure to decrease by £616,700 (as opposed to the original figure of £1,326,000 as quoted on MD-TR-2011-0039) and the ESC revenue head of expenditure to increase by the same amount. 

 

This decision does not change the total amount of expenditure approved by the States for 2011.

Action required:  Head of Decision Support to notify the Comprehensive Spending Review Programme Director and Head of Financial Performance Reporting that this decision has been approved.

Signature:

Position: Senator  P F C Ozouf, Minister for Treasury and Resources        

 

      

 

Date Signed:

Date of Decision:

 

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