Budget Transfers: Target Operating Model

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A decision made 17 April 2020:

Decision Reference: MD-TR-2020-0045
Decision Summary Title:	Inter-departmental budget transfers associated with the Target Operating Model		Date of Decision Summary:	17th April 2020
Decision Summary Author:	Specialist – Business Cases		Decision Summary: Public or Exempt?	Public
Type of Report: Oral or Written?	Written		Person Giving Oral Report:	N/A
Written Report Title:	Inter-departmental budget transfers associated with the Target Operating Model		Date of Written Report:	17th April 2020
Written Report Author:	Specialist – Business Cases		Written Report: Public or Exempt?	Public
Subject: Inter-departmental budget transfers between heads of expenditure associated with the Target Operating Model.
Decision(s): The Minister approved a recurring net nil transfer between heads of expenditure as detailed below.
Reason(s) for Decision: Article 18(1)(a) of the Public Finances (Jersey) Law 2019 states that a specified amount appropriated for one head of expenditure may, with the approval of the Minister for Treasury and Resources, be used for the purposes of another head of expenditure that is set out in the government plan. Article 18(4) of the Public Finances (Jersey) Law 2019 states that the Minister shall give the States Assembly at least 4 weeks’ notice before an amount is transferred under paragraph (1)(a). P.28/2020 Draft Public Finances (Amendment of Law) (Jersey) Regulations 202-, approved by the States Assembly on 24th March 2020, agreed a number of temporary modifications to the Public Finances (Jersey) Law 2019 one of which stated; to remove the requirement in Article 18 that if the Minister proposes to give a direction to re-allocate a head of expenditure, the Minister gives the States at least 4 weeks’ notice. Article 18(5) of the Public Finances (Jersey) Law 2019 states that if a direction under this Article would affect a head of expenditure that relates to the responsibilities of any Minister, that Minister must be consulted before the direction is made. The relevant Accountable Officers have approved the transfers and Ministers have been consulted. Article 22(1) of the Public Finances (Jersey) Law 2019 states that in relation to limitations on powers – non-Ministerial States bodies, the Minister may give a direction under any of Articles 18 to 21 with respect to a head of expenditure that relates to the operations of a non-Ministerial States body only with the approval of:- (b) the Chair of the States’ Privileges and Procedures Committee, in the case of the States Greffe; or (c) the accountable officer of the non-Ministerial States body, in any other case. The Chair of PPC and relevant Accountable Officers for non-Ministerial States bodies have approved these transfers.
Resource Implications: The heads of expenditure will change as described below on a recurring basis. This decision does not change the total amount of expenditure approved by the States in the Government Plan 2020-2023.
Action required: The Head of Financial Governance to advise the Specialist – Business Cases and the Heads of Finance Business Partnering of the departments that this decision is approved.
Signature:		Position: Deputy Susie Pinel Minister for Treasury and Resources
Date Signed:		Date of Decision: