Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR): Budget Transfer for Re-structuring Provision to Fund 'Invest to Save'

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A decision made 22 June 2012:

Decision Reference: MD-HSS-2012-0022
Decision Summary Title :	Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) – Transfer of funding from Treasury and Resources re-structuring provision to Health and Social Services		Date of Decision Summary:	13th June 2012
Decision Summary Author:	HSSD Director of Finance and Information		Decision Summary: Public or Exempt?	Public
Type of Report: Oral or Written?	Written		Person Giving Oral Report:	N/A
Written Report Title :	Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) – Transfer of funding from Treasury and Resources re-structuring provision to Health and Social Services		Date of Written Report:	7th June 2012
Written Report Author:	HSSD Director of Finance and Information		Written Report : Public or Exempt?	Exempt 3.2.1 (a) (i)
Subject: Approve the transfer of up to a maximum of £127,000 in 2012 from the Treasury and Resources Re-structuring Provision to fund an invest-to-save initiative in Health and Social Services.
Decision(s): The Minister agreed to accept a non-recurrent budget transfer from Treasury and Resources Re-structuring Provision in 2012 (as detailed in MD-TR-2012-0052) of a sum up to a maximum of £127,000 to fund an invest-to-save initiative which was approved by the Council of Ministers on the 7th June 2012.
Reason(s) for decision: The Minister agrees to accept the non-recurrent budget transfer to enable Health and Social Services to deliver recurrent CSR savings towards the Workforce Efficiency and Productivity Programme (WEPP).
Resource Implications: The Treasury and Resources Re-structuring Provision to decrease by a maximum of £127,000 in 2012 and the Health and Social Services revenue head of expenditure to increase by an identical amount.
Action required: The transfer of up to a maximum of £127,000 from the Treasury and Resources Re-structuring Provision into the Health and Social Services budget in 2012. The Director of Finance and Information to forward the signed Ministerial decision to the Treasury and Resources Department to support of the approved budget transfer as detailed in MD-TR-2012-0052.
Signature:		Position: Health and Social Services Minister
Date Signed:		Date of Decision (If different from Date Signed):