Historical Child Abuse Inquiry: Central Contingency Funding request to meet costs incurred to-date by Home Affairs Department

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A decision made 23 January 2015:

Decision Reference: MD-HA-2015-0012
Decision Summary Title:	Funding request for the Home Affairs Department’s costs relating to the Committee of Inquiry into Historical Child Abuse		Date of Decision Summary:	12 January 2015
Decision Summary Author:	Finance Director Home Affairs		Decision Summary: Public or Exempt?	Public
Type of Report: Oral or Written?	Written		Person Giving Oral Report:	N/A
Written Report Title:	Funding request for HAD costs relating to ICI into HCA		Date of Written Report:	12 January 2015
Written Report Author:	Finance Director Home Affairs		Written Report : Public or Exempt?	Public
Subject: Central Contingency funding request in order to fund the costs incurred to date by the Home Affairs Department (HAD) associated with the Committee of Inquiry into Historical Child Abuse.
Decision(s): The Minister agreed to: request a non-recurring budget transfer of £322,000 from Central Contingency to the Home Affairs revenue head of expenditure; accept a non-recurring budget transfer of £262,927 from the Chief Ministers revenue head of expenditure to the Home Affairs revenue head of expenditure; in order to fund the costs incurred by the States of Jersey Police in 2014 relating to the Committee of Inquiry into Historical Child Abuse.
Reason(s) for Decision: Article 17(2) of the Public Finances (Jersey) Law 2005 states that the Minister for Treasury and Resources is authorised to approve the transfer from contingency expenditure to heads of expenditure of amounts not exceeding, in total, the amount available for contingency expenditure in a financial year.
Resource Implications: Central Contingency will decrease by £322,000 and the Chief Ministers revenue head of expenditure by £262,927 in 2014 and the Home Affairs revenue head of expenditure will increase by £584,927. This decision does not change the total amount of expenditure approved by the States for the period of the current MTFP 2013 to 2015.
Action required: Finance Director to seek the necessary approvals from the Minister for Treasury and Resources.
Signature:		Position: Minister for Home Affairs
Date Signed:		Date of Decision (if different from date signed):