Office of the Chief Executive: Transfer of funds to Growth, Housing and Environment

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A decision made on 16 July 2020

Decision Reference: MD-E-2020-0026
Decision Summary Title :	Transfer of funds OCE to GHE			Date of Decision Summary:	07 July 2020
Decision Summary Author:	Group Director – Economy			Decision Summary: Public or Exempt?	Public
Written Report title:	Transfer of funds OCE to GHE			Date of Written Report:	07 July 2020
Written Report author:	Group Director – Economy			Written Report: Public or exempt?	Public
Subject: Goods and Borders budget transfer from the Office of the Chief Executive (OCE) to the Growth Housing and Environment (GHE) Department.
Decision(s): To transfer the sum of £131,500 from OCE to GHE to allow GHE to employ the required resource to deliver planned coordination and technical and policy development under the Goods and Borders Cluster.
Reason(s) for decision: The Government Plan allocated a total of £450,000 to allow the Goods and Borders Cluster, run by Economy, to deliver the coordination, technical expertise and analysis required to undertake an assessment of the UK FTA negotiations. The Goods and Borders Cluster was a blended team across GHE, however now that Economy has been moved to OCE, funds needs to be transferred back to GHE for the required resource to be allocated correctly.
Resource Implications: No resource implications.
Action required: Treasury to ensure transfer of allocated funds from OCE business unit to NCR012 GHE business unit IEF040.
Signature: Senator Lyndon Farnham		Position: Minister for Economic Development, Tourism, Sport and Culture
Date Signed:			Date of Decision (If different from Date Signed):