Chief Minister’s Department
Ministerial Decision Report
Restructuring Provision Transfer for ENGAGEMENT
- Purpose of Report
To enable the Chief Minister to accept a revenue budget transfer in the sum of £709,000 across the years 2017 to 2019 with indicative funding of £303,000 in 2017 and £203,000.00 in the years 2018 and 2019 from the Restructuring Provision to the Chief Minister’s Department (CMD) revenue head of expenditure to fund the Change Management provision.
- Background
A Restructuring Provision bid was presented to the Council of Ministers on 27th January 2016 seeking funding to support Engagement during the 2016-2019 MTFP2 period. At that time, the Council agreed the 2016 funding and agreed in principle, the request for funding for 2017.
A Restructuring Provision bid was represented to the Council of Ministers on 9th March 2017 seeking funding to support Engagement for the years 2017 to 2019, in the sum of £709,000 across the years 2017 to 2019 with indicative funding of £303,000 in 2017 and £203,000.00 in the years 2018 and 2019. The Council agreed the requests for funding for the years 2017 to 2019.
The table below sets out both the original and revised requests.
Business Case: Finances | RPB81 Engagement |
MTFP2 Period | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | Total |
COM Approved and In-Principal Approval (£120,000 per annum transferred from the Corporate Change Office relating to 2 x FTE) | £80,000 | £193,000 | £120,000 | £120,000 | £513,000 |
Requested | £80,000 | £303,000 | £203,000 | £203,000 | £789,000 |
Carry forward | -£35,000 | £35,000 | | | £0 |
| | | | Variance | £276,000 |
The Engagement Team undertake communication activities including: (i) media and materials for communication campaigns mainly around Workforce Modernisation; (ii) scheduled monthly staff events/roadshows, arranging departmental visits by the Chief Executive and the Lead for Public Sector Reform and developing stories in Changing States to promote change and organisational improvement; (iii) organisation-wide roll out of a newsletter platform (Newsweaver) to communicate news about public sector reform; (iv) tools to measure engagement; (v) ongoing support for the Workforce Modernisation project and change communication associated with departmental service reviews.
- Recommendation
The Chief Minister to accept a budget transfer of £709,000 with indicative funding of £303,000.00 in 2017 and £203,000.00 in the years 2018 and 2019 to the Chief Minister’s Department revenue head of expenditure to fund the Corporate Change Portfolio Office.
- Reason for Decision
The Council of Ministers acknowledged that investment will be required to ensure Public Sector Reform is successful, and approved various requests at a meeting on 27th January 2016.
- Resource Implications
The CMD revenue head of expenditure to increase by £709,000 across the years 2017 to 2019. The Restructuring Provision revenue head of expenditure to decrease by an identical amount.
This decision does not change the total amount of expenditure approved by the States for 2017-2019 in the Medium Term Financial Plan.
Report author : Portfolio Analyst, Chief Minister’s Department | Document date: 15th March 2017 |
Quality Assurance / Review : | File Path: L:Drive/Fileplan/100 Corporate/Executive/01-CM/13-MDs/2017 |
MD sponsor : Chief Minister |