Chief Minister's Department: Budget Realignment (Procurement Savings)

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A decision made on 2 May 2014:

Decision Reference: MD-C-2014-0092
Decision Summary Title:	Realignment of all States departmental budgets to reflect the final portion of procurement savings as part of the CSR programme		Date of Decision Summary:	28 April 2014
Decision Summary Author:	Finance Manager, Corporate Group		Decision Summary: Public or Exempt?	Public
Type of Report: Oral or Written?	Written		Person Giving Oral Report:	N/A
Written Report Title:	Realignment of all States departmental budgets to reflect the final portion of procurement savings as part of the CSR programme		Date of Written Report:	28 April 2014
Written Report Author:	Finance Manager, Corporate Group		Written Report : Public or Exempt?	Public
Subject: The recurring realignment of the Chief Minister’s Department’s budget to fund savings identified for CSR purposes.
Decision(s): The Deputy Chief Minister approved the recurring realignment of the Chief Minister’s Department’s budget from 2014 being the final portion of the £6.5m Procurement CSR programme and for these savings to be returned to the Provision for Restructuring Costs.
Reason(s) for Decision: In 2011 Corporate Procurement began its transformation programme with cross departmental procurement projects targeted to deliver the £6.5m CSR Savings. Phase 1 of the programme resulted in £3,048,700 being removed from departmental budgets in 2013. The outstanding amount of £3,451,300 will be removed from departmental budgets from 2014. Article 2(6) of the Public Finances (Transitional Arrangements) (Jersey) Order 2011 states that all or any part of the amount appropriated by a head of expenditure may, with the approval of the Minister for Treasury and Resources, be used for the purpose of another head of expenditure.
Resource Implications: To transfer recurring net savings of £225,223 from the Chief Minister’s Department’s budget to the Provision for Restructuring Costs.
Action required: Finance Director, Corporate Group to notify the Director of Accounting Services that this decision has been approved and for £225,223 of the Chief Ministers departmental 2014 budget to be transferred to the Provision for Restructuring Costs as set out in the attached report.
Signature:		Position: Deputy Chief Minister
Date Signed:		Date of Decision: