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WQ.285/2018

WRITTEN QUESTION TO THE MINISTER FOR TREASURY AND RESOURCES BY DEPUTY M.R. LE HEGARAT OF ST. HELIER

ANSWER TO BE TABLED ON MONDAY 3rd DECEMBER 2018

Question

Will the Minister also provide total departmental underspends (by Department) for each of the years 2015- 2017, excluding non-cash, and the total received back each year by departments as carry forwards; and a breakdown of how any balances not treated as carry forwards were utilised?

Answer

The table below provides a breakdown of the remaining final budget unspent and how much was carried forward by department for the years 2015 to 2017. It also provides a breakdown of where any underspends not carried forward directly in to department budgets were allocated.

 

 

2017

2016

2015

 

Remaining Budget Unspent £'000

Carried Forward

£'000

Remaining Budget Unspent £'000

Carried Forward

£'000

Remaining Budget Unspent £'000

Carried Forward

£'000

 

Chief Minister's Department *

1 ,397

2,099

2 ,374

2 ,023

1,786

2,004

 

- Overseas Aid

4 1

41

5 7

5 7

6

6

 

Economic Development, Tourism, Sport and Culture

5 38

181

5 06

1 ,268

381

731

 

Education

1 ,617

1,278

4 ,125

1 ,958

1,712

1,082

 

Department of the Environment

1 ,370

674

4 83

1 ,066

353

303

 

Health and Social Services

4 ,657

5,819

6 ,473

7 ,929

618

3,189

 

Community and Constitutional Affairs

4 92

193

1 ,478

7 17

511

697

 

Social Security

1 0,971

300

1 0,178

-

12,989

6,074

 

Department for Infrastructure

1 ,764

372

3 ,350

3 ,349

3,161

2,377

 

Treasury and Resources

1 ,335

829

1 ,475

5 19

1,357

1,616

 

Non Ministerial States Funded

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

- Bailiff s Chamber

9 6

-

1 6

1 0

50

20

 

- Law Officers

6 37

98

1 ,281

1 99

555

358

 

- Judicial Greffe

5 51

90

9 98

6 0

397

321

 

- Viscount's Services

4 30

52

3 87

4 8

169

90

 

- Official Analysts

1 10

18

8 5

-

56

14

 

- Office of the Lieutenant Governor

4 3

43

5 7

5 8

142

70

 

- Office of the Dean of Jersey

1 6

-

-

-

-

-

 

- Data Protection Commission

-

-

-

-

41

42

 

- Probation Department

4 5

-

9 5

3 0

56

-

 

- Comptroller and Auditor General

4 6

-

2 41

-

245

35

 

States Assembly

1 04

120

2 88

-

356

45

 

Departmental Total 26,260   12,207   33,947   19,291   24,941   19,074

 

 

Amount not carried forward in departments

14,053   14,656   5,867

 

- Returned to the Consolidated Fund

 

-

 

-

 

(5,867)

 

- Carry forward to Reserves and Contingency

 

(14,053)

 

(11,496)

 

 

 

- All departments for non-consolidated pay

award

 

 

 

(3,160)

 

 

 

 

-   -   -

 

Notes:

* Includes External Relations

Rounding applied

More detail, including what unspent department budgets were carried forward for, was published in the reports accompanying the Ministerial Decisions approving the allocation of carry forwards in each of the years. (2017, 2016 and 2015)