Budget Transfer from Restructuring Provision for Taxes Office Modernisation Programme

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A decision made on 13 January 2017:

Decision Reference: MD-TR-2017-0005
Decision Summary Title:	Restructuring Provision Transfer for Funding TOMP and Associated Staffing Requirements		Date of Decision Summary:	9th January 2017
Decision Summary Author:	Finance Director, Corporate Group		Decision Summary: Public or Exempt?	Public
Type of Report: Oral or Written?	Written		Person Giving Oral Report:	N/A
Written Report Title :	Transfer Of Restructuring Provision To Taxes Office To Fund The Taxes Office Modernisation Programme and Associated Staffing Requirements		Date of Written Report:	9th January 2017
Written Report Author:	Finance Director, Corporate Group		Written Report : Public or Exempt?	Exempt Article 35
Subject: The transfer of £1,315,500 from the Restructuring Provision to the Treasury and Resources Department revenue head of expenditure to fund the Taxes Office Modernisation Programme (TOMP) to be allocated in annual tranches of £438,500 for 2017, 2018 and 2019. The extension of 4.0 FTE and an increase of 1.0 FTE within the Treasury and Resources Taxes Office TOMP for the period 1st January 2017 to 31st December 2019 to be funded by the transfer request.
Decision(s): The Treasury and Resources Minister approved one off budget transfers of £438,500 in 2017, 2018 and 2019 from the Restructuring Provision to the Treasury and Resources Department (Taxes Office) in order to continue the TOMP work and the extension of 4.0 FTE and increase of 1.0 FTE within the Treasury and Resources Taxes Office for the period 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2019.
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 or the insurance fund of amounts not exceeding, in total, the amount available for contingency expenditure in a financial year. The Contingency Allocation Policy published by the Minister for Treasury and Resources (R.10/2012) states that all requests for Allocation from Contingency will be considered by the Council of Ministers and this restructuring provision bid was approved at their meeting on 7th December 2016. To comply with P67/1999 which charges the Minister for Treasury and Resources to regulate the number of persons that may be employed by the States and delegation 2.3 in which authority is delegated to the Treasurer of the States for agreeing non-contentious increases to States staffing levels. The Council of Ministers approved the required funding, as outlined in the TOMP PSR Business Case, from the Restructuring Provision in their meeting of 7th December 2016.
Resource Implications: The Treasury and Resources revenue head of expenditure to increase by £438,500 for each of the years 2017, 2018 and 2019 and the Restructuring Provision, held within Central Contingencies, to decrease by the same amount in the corresponding years. This decision does not change the total amount of expenditure approved by the States in the Medium Term Financial Plan 2016 to 2019. A temporary extension to 4.0 FTE from 1st January 2017 until 31st December 2019 relating to TOMP and a temporary increase of 1.0 FTE in the Treasury and Resources Taxes Office for the period 1st January 2017 to 31st December 2019 for the Programme Director post, increasing the total FTE in Treasury and Resources from 205.9 to 206.9 (5.0 FTE to be removed 1st January 2020). These are all funded by the transfer from the Restructuring Provision.
Action required: The Head of Decision Support to advise the Finance Director of the Corporate Group that this decision is approved.
Signature:		Position: Senator A J H Maclean Minister for Treasury & Resources
Date Signed:		Date of Decision (If different from Date Signed)