Central Contingency funding for 2016 Doctors' Pay Award

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A decision made 10 May 2016:

Decision Reference: MD-TR-2016-0043
Decision Summary Title:	Central Contingency Funding for 2016 Doctors’ Pay Award		Date of Decision Summary:	10th May 2016
Decision Summary Author:	Head of Decision Support		Decision Summary: Public or Exempt?	Public
Type of Report: Oral or Written?	Written		Person Giving Oral Report:
Written Report Title:	Central Contingency Funding for 2016 Doctors’ Pay Award		Date of Written Report:	10th May 2016
Written Report Author:	Head of Decision Support		Written Report : Public or Exempt?	Exempt FOI Article 34
Subject: Transfer of contingency funding from the Central Contingency (Pay Provision in 2016) to the Health and Social Services Department (H&SS) for costs associated with the Doctors’ Pay Award for 2016.
Decision(s): The Minister approved the following transfers from the Central Contingency (Pay Provision in 2016) to the Health and Social Services Department: i> a one-off budget transfer of £696,000 in 2016 to fund the pay award for consultants and middle grade doctors reflecting the decision to make the award by the States Employment Board ii> a recurrent budget transfer of £696,000 to fund the pay award recurrently, to be effected in the MTFP 2017 – 2019 departmental cash limit. On 4th May 2016, the Council of Ministers approved the transfer of £696,000 from Central Contingency for the funding of the Doctors’ pay awards.
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. The Minister for Treasury and Resources published the Contingency Allocation: Policy (R.10/2012) on 30th January 2012. This requires the Council of Ministers to consider all requests for allocations from Contingency, prior to the decision of the T&R Minister. A departmental decision was signed by the Minister for Health and Social Services (MD- HSS-2016-0034) on 6th May 2016.
Resource Implications: Health and Social Services Department revenue head of expenditure to increase by a total of £696,000 in 2016 and every subsequent year and the Central Contingency (Pay Provision in 2016) to decrease by an identical amount. This decision does not change the total amount of expenditure approved by the States for the period of the MTFP 2016 - 2019.
Action required: Head of Decision Support to advise the Assistant Director of Finance - HSSD once this decision has been approved.
Signature:		Position: Senator A J H Maclean, Minister for Treasury and Resources
Date Signed:		Date of Decision: