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States Greffe
Deputy Ian Gorst
Minister for Treasury and Resources 19-21 Broad Street
St Helier
Jersey
JE2 3RR
BY EMAIL
30th January 2023
Dear Minister,
Corporate Services Scrutiny Panel Quarterly Hearing - Residual Questions
The Corporate Services Scrutiny Panel would like to thank you for your participation in our public hearing on 27th January 2023. As you will appreciate, the Panel had a number of questions of public interest that it was, unfortunately, unable to pose due to time constraints.
The Panel would be grateful if you could please consider the following residual questions and provide a written response by no later than Monday 6th February 2023. Please be aware that it is the Panel's intention to publish the response it receives on the States Assembly Website.
Government Plan 2023-2026
- Please can you confirm the areas, if any, where reporting measures could be improved to assist Treasury in the monitoring of budget allocations being sufficient or not to meet planned Government expenditure across the period of the Government Plan?
- How will the agreed-upon budgets for capital projects be appraised in consideration of supply shocks which have led to cost push inflation?
- The States' approved the Health and Social Security Panel's fourth amendment to the Government Plan 2023-26 resulting in no funds being transferred from the Health Insurance Fund for 2023 and 2024 and instead the General Reserve Head of Expenditure will be reduced by £12,450,000 for the purposes of funding the Jersey Care Model, the Jersey Care Model – Digital Systems and the Digital Care Strategy. Will there be any financial consequences as a result of this decision and, if so, how will you be managing the financial consequences that you have identified?
Ministerial Priorities
- Your Ministerial priorities for 2023-26 have been published as part of the Ministerial Plans. Can you briefly update us on the progress to date of your published ministerial priorities for 2023 in respect of our Panel's remit?
- Do you anticipate any challenges and/or delays in accomplishing these as intended within the 2023 timeframe?
- Are any priorities being prioritised above others as opposed to being implemented simultaneously?
- If so, which ones are being prioritised and what is the rationale for prioritising those identified above others?
- Do you have the resources required to service these priorities in a timely and effective manner in 2023 and, where resources are not deemed to be sufficient, what is being done to acquire the needed resourcing and capacity to achieve these priorities within the timeframes intended?
- When will the Delivery Plans be published?
Yours Sincerely,
Deputy Sam Mézec
Chair
Corporate Services Scrutiny Panel