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Budget transfer from Central Contingency to Chief Minister's Department: Redundancy Provision

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A decision made 9 December 2016:

Ministerial decision reference    MD-C-2016-0128 

Decision summary title 

Transfer of funding between the Chief Ministers Department and Central Contingencies to recognise the costs associated with the Voluntary Release and Redundancy Scheme in 2016.

Decision summary author

Finance Manager - Corporate Group

Is the decision summary public or exempt?  

Public

Report title 

Transfer of funding between the Chief Ministers Department and Central Contingencies to recognise the costs associated with the Voluntary Release and Redundancy Scheme in 2016.

Report author or name of

person giving report

Finance Manager - Corporate Group

Is the report public or exempt?

Public

Decision and reason for the decision

The Chief Minister accepted a non-recurring budget transfer of £252,966.11 to the Chief Minister’s Department revenue head of expenditure, as outlined in the attached report, from Central Contingency – Redundancy Provision for VR Applications approved and signed up to 19th November 2016.

The Council of Ministers approved the allocation of £2,000,000 from Central Contingencies to create a Redundancy Provision in 2015 to fund the first tranche of the scheme. The States Assembly approved a further £20,000,000 to be added to the Redundancy Provision across 2015 and 2016 to be funded by transfers from the Strategic Reserve Fund with £4,000,000 to be transferred in 2015 and £16,000,000 in 2016. Following the completion of the 2015 VR scheme the remaining money was drawn down for funding of new applications in 2016.  In total this left £17.3 million available for VR funding from January 2016. 

 

This Decision increases the Chief Minister’s Departmental budget to fund the next tranche of VR Applications to 19th November 2016. There will be a final MD in early January 2017 to capture any further applications signed before 31st December 2016.

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 to heads of expenditure of amounts not exceeding, in total, the amount available for contingency expenditure in a financial year.

Article 18(1A) 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, be transferred from the head of expenditure to contingency expenditure, within or after the end of the relevant financial year.

 

Resource implications

Chief Minister’s Department revenue head of expenditure, as outlined in the attached report, to increase by a total of £252,966.11 and Central Contingency – Redundancy Provision to decrease by an identical amount.

This decision does not change the total amount of expenditure approved by the States for the period of the current MTFP 2016 to 2019.

Action required

Research and Policy Officer to advise Finance Manager – Corporate Group that this decision has been approved.

Signature

 

 

 

Position

Senator I J Gorst

Chief Minister

 

 

 

 

 

Date signed

 

Effective date of the decision

 

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