Budget transfer from restructuring provision to Chief Minister's Department: LEAN programme

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A decision made 27 January 2017:

Decision Reference: MD-TR-2017-0014
Decision Summary Title:	Restructuring Provision Transfer for Funding of Lean sustainability		Date of Decision Summary:	27th January 2017
Decision Summary Author:	Finance Director, Corporate Group		Decision Summary: Public or Exempt?	Public
Type of Report: Oral or Written?	Written		Person Giving Oral Report:	N/A
Written Report Title :	Restructuring Provision Transfer for Funding of Lean sustainability		Date of Written Report:	27th January 2017
Written Report Author:	Head of Decision Support		Written Report : Public or Exempt?	Public
Subject: The transfer of £200,000 in total across the years 2017 and 2018 from the Restructuring Provision to the Chief Minister’s Department CMD) revenue head of expenditure to fund the ongoing sustainability of Lean as detailed in the attached report.
Decision(s): The Treasury and Resources Minister approved the transfer of £200,000 in total across the years 2017 and 2018 from the Restructuring Provision to the Chief Minister’s Department CMD) revenue head of expenditure to fund the ongoing sustainability of Lean as detailed in the attached report.
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 or the insurance fund of amounts not exceeding, in total, the amount available for contingency expenditure in a financial year. The Contingency Allocation Policy published by the Minister for Treasury and Resources (R.10/2012) states that all requests for Allocation from Contingency will be considered by the Council of Ministers and this restructuring provision bid was approved at their meeting on 7th December 2016. A Restructuring Provision bid was presented to the Council of Ministers on 27th January 2016 to fund the continuation of the LEAN programme during the 2016-2019 MTFP2 period, in the sum of £100,000 for each of the years 2016 – 2018, and at that time, the Council agreed the 2016 funding and agreed in principle, the requests for funding for 2017 – 2018. The Minister for Treasury and Resources has previously signed a decision MD-TR-2016-0015 on 4th April 2016 allocating funding of £1,377,978 in 2016 from the Restructuring Provision within Contingency to the Public Sector Reform Programme– including Workforce Modernisation, Engagement, Leadership Development, PSR Portfolio Office and Lean. MD-C-2017-0005 was signed by the Chief Minister on 27th January 2017.
Resource Implications: The CMD revenue head of expenditure to increase by £200,000 in total across the years 2017 and 2018, and the Restructuring Provision to decrease by an identical amount. The £200,000 in total is proposed to be drawn down as £100,000 in 2017 and £100,000 in 2018 but the amount for each year may be varied without exceeding the total amount for the two years. This decision does not change the total amount of expenditure approved by the States for 2017 – 2019 in the Medium Term Financial Plan.
Action required: The Head of Decision Support to advise the Finance Director of the Corporate Group that this decision is approved.
Signature:		Position: Senator A J H Maclean Minister for Treasury & Resources
Date Signed:		Date of Decision (If different from Date Signed)