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Transfer of Digital Items: Health and Community Services to Chief Operating Office

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A decision made on 11 April 2022

Decision Reference:  MD-TR-2022-261

Public

Subject: Transfer of Digital items from Health and Community Services to Chief Operating Office

 

Report Title: Transfer of Digital items from Health and Community Services to Chief Operating Office

Public

Decision(s):

The Minister approved a recurring transfer of £3,200,698 and 12.0 FTE from HCS to COO, to facilitate the creation of a centralised digital function, as detailed in the attached report.

Reason for Decision(s):

In 2019 the decision was made to create a centralised Digital function, which aligned with the OneGov principles. Centralising digital teams will allow for the development and implementation of a sustainable plan to build ongoing internal capability to support cultural development and centralise teams from multiple departments, which would allow for efficiencies to be achieved while transferring the FTEs to the new Target Operating Model (TOM) within the Modernisation and Digital team.

Resource Implications: The HCS revenue head of expenditure to decrease by £3,200,698 and the COO revenue head of expenditure to increase by an identical amount.  The approved FTE of COO to increase by 12.0 FTE and the approved FTE of HCS to decrease by an identical amount.  A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been drafted between the HCS and M&D to agree on responsibility and accountability.  This decision does not change the total amount of expenditure approved by the States in the Government Plan 2022-2025. and the transfer will be reflected in the next Government Plan 2023-2026 cash limits.

 

Action Required: The Head of Financial Governance to advise the Health and Community Services and Chief Operating Office Finance Business Partners that this decision is approved.  In accordance with Article 18(4) the Greffier of the States is requested to arrange for the attached report to be presented to the States at least 4 weeks before the transfers are concluded. After the expiry of 4 weeks following presentation to the States the transfer may be concluded.

Signature:

 

 

Signed By: Minister for Treasury and Resources

Date Signed:

 

 

Date of Decision (If different from Date Signed):

 

 

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