Budget transfer from Health and Social Services Department to Community and Constitutional Affairs and Chief Minister's Departments

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A decision made 31 March 2017:

Ministerial decision reference MD-C-2017-0041
Decision summary title Transfer of Public Health budgets from Health and Social Services Department to the Community and Constitutional Affairs Department and the Chief Minister’s Department
Decision summary author	Director, Corporate Policy, Chief Minister’s Department	Is the decision summary public or exempt?	Public
Report title Transfer of Public Health budgets from Health and Social Services Department to the Community and Constitutional Affairs Department and the Chief Minister’s Department
Report author or name of person giving report	Director, Corporate Policy, Chief Minister’s Department	Is the report public or exempt?	Public
Decision and reason for the decision: The Minister approved the transfer of a net reoccurring revenue budget of £896,300 from the Health and Social Services Department to the Community and Constitutional Affairs Department (in respect of strategic public health, to include the Medical Officer for Health, and professional and care regulation); and £164,200 from the Health and Social Services Department to the Statistics Unit, Chief Minister’s Department (in respect of the statistical functions for public health); both with effect from 1st January, 2017; and any restructuring amounts approved for the transferred functions. This decision is taken for a number of reasons, but most prominently; To position strategic public health, and professional and care regulation, separate from the delivery of health care; and to enhance joint working with related policy and regulatory functions, including wider social and housing policy, so as to support the wider strategic objective of ‘tackling the wider determinates of health’. To position the production of health statistics within the independent statistics unit, helping the production of health statistics to be integrated into their schedule of releases, and to benefit from the independence and expertise of the statistics unit and the oversight of the independent statistics users group.
Resource implications: The Health and Social Services Department’s reoccurring revenue head of expenditure will decrease by £1,060,500 and 15 FTE with effect from 1st January, 2017; the Community and Constitutional Affairs Department’s reoccurring revenue head of expenditure will increase by £896,300 and 12 FTE with effect from the 1st January, 2017; the Chief Minister’s Department reoccurring revenue head of expenditure will increase by £164,200 and 3 FTE with effect from the 1st January, 2017; and any restructuring amounts approved for the transferred functions will also be transferred.
Action required: Relevant finance staff in each Department to give effect to the above transfers in reoccurring revenue head of expenditure.

Signature

Position

Senator Ian Gorst

Chief Minister

Date signed

Effective date of the decision