Decision details

To approve specific revenue and capital budget carry forward requests from 2015/16 to 2016/17.

Matter for Decision

The Officer’s report presented for the Communities Portfolio:

a)   A summary of actual income and expenditure compared to the final budget for 2015/16 (outturn position).

b)   Revenue and capital budget variances with explanations.

c)    Specific requests to carry forward funding available from budget underspends into 2016/17.

Decision of Executive Councillor for Communities

The Executive Councillor requested that the Executive Councillor for Finance and Resources approved the following at the Strategy and Resources Scrutiny Committee on 4 July 2016:

a)   Carry forward requests totalling £60,000 revenue funding from 2015/16 to 2016/17, as detailed in Appendix C of the Officer’s report.

b)   Carry forward requests of £5,991,000 capital resources from 2015/16 to 2016/17 to fund rephased capital spending as detailed in Appendix D.

Reason for the Decision

As set out in the Officer’s report.

Any Alternative Options Considered and Rejected

Not applicable.

Scrutiny Considerations

The committee made no comments in response to the report from the Principal Accountant (Services).

The Committee unanimously resolved to endorse the recommendations.

The Executive Councillor approved the recommendations.

Conflicts of Interest Declared by the Executive Councillor (and any Dispensations Granted)

No conflicts of interest were declared by the Executive Councillor.