2023 Financial Year: Repurposing of Funds to various Heads of Expenditure

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A decision made 16 February 2024:

Decision Reference: MD-TR-2024-89		Public
Subject: Regularise the closing 2023 Departmental positions and Project Heads of Expenditure
Report Title: WR - Regularise the closing 2023 Departmental positions and Project Heads of Expenditure		Public
Decision(s): The Minister for Treasury and Resources decided to approve for the 2023 financial year: • the repurposing of up to £2,852,195 of 2023 growth, • repurposing of up to £2,408,500 of unspent in-year allocations from the reserve; and the allocation from Reserves of up to the following amounts in respect of 2023: • £66,000 to the Bailiff’s Chamber heads of expenditure, • £7,600,000 to the Health and Community Services head of expenditure, • £82,000 to the Law Officers’ Department head of expenditure, • £21,000 to the Orchard House project head of expenditure; and • £1,000 to the Sewage Treatment Works project head of expenditure.
Reason for Decision(s): Article 15(3) of the Public Finances (Jersey) Law 2019 states that the approval by the States of a Government Plan authorises the Minister to direct how an approved appropriation for a reserve head of expenditure in the plan may be spent (including on another head of expenditure) in the first financial year covered by the plan. The current Procedures for Allocations from the Reserve, presented to the States Assembly as R.76/2022, sets out the requirements for allocations from the General Reserve and the Reserve for Central Risk and Inflation Funding. These requirements have been met and the Treasurer of the States now recommends these allocations to the Minister for Treasury and Resources for approval.
Resource Implications: The following Heads of Expenditure will decrease: - the General Reserve by up to £7,666,000. - the Reserve for Centrally Held Items: Court and Cases Costs Smoothing Reserve by up to £82,000. - the Reserve for Central Risk and Inflation Funding by up to £22,000. The following Heads of Expenditure will increase: - Bailiff’s Chambers by up to £66,000. - Health and Community Services by up to £7,600,000. - Law Officers’ Department by up to £82,000. - Orchard House by up to £21,000. - Sewage Treatment Works by up to £1,000 This decision does not change the total amount of expenditure approved by the States in the Government Plan 2023-26.
Action Required: The Minister’s Private Secretary to advise the Specialist Special Project Assurance – Strategic Finance and the Heads of Finance Business Partnering for the associated Heads of Expenditure that this decision is approved.
Signature:	Signed By: Minister for Treasury and Resources
Date Signed:	Date of Decision (If different from Date Signed):