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Forecast |
Provisional |
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Variance |
Variance |
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Month 9 |
Month 12 |
Movement |
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Service |
£'000 |
£'000 |
£'000 |
Explanation of Main Movements |
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Commissioning & Communities |
542 |
300 |
(242) |
Underspend identified within the General Fund element of the VAWG budget. |
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Education & Learning |
236 |
576 |
340 |
Shortfall in expected contributions from Public Health. |
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Family Help & Protection |
(1,751) |
(1,938) |
(187) |
Reduction in placement costs for Children with Disabilities and additional savings from recruitment controls. |
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Public Health |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Total Families, Children & Wellbeing |
(973) |
(1,062) |
(89) |
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Adult Social Care |
(1,087) |
(1,445) |
(358) |
Mainly the result of achieved savings from the Direct Payments review. |
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S75 Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust (SPFT) |
1,522 |
1,712 |
190 |
Increase in Section 75 related staffing costs and high number of mental health placements. |
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Integrated Commissioning |
120 |
(229) |
(349) |
Reduced use of
Crossroads contract & Direct payments as well as vacancies and
frozen recruitment |
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Housing People Services |
2,127 |
2,347 |
220 |
The adverse financial position is primarily attributed to last minute claim from suppliers and dilapidation costs. |
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Homes & Investment |
(9) |
46 |
55 |
Unachieved savings for fine income partially offset by staffing costs. |
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Further Financial Recovery Measures |
(316) |
0 |
316 |
Changes reflected in outturn above. |
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Total Homes & Adult Social Care |
2,357 |
2,431 |
74 |
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City Infrastructure |
(1,653) |
(3,302) |
(1,649) |
Improved income in Parking and Highways and savings against the NSL contract performance. Increased staff costs capitalised against eligible capital programmes and release of grant and initiatives budgets. |
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Environment & Culture |
223 |
(993) |
(1,216) |
Receipt of one-off income from a rebate of Business rates at the Brighton Centre, improved levels of income from seafront services, the leisure management contracts and additional s106 monies eligible to support revenue costs. Greater than expected Impact of spend controls and decisions made at year end regarding reserve and provision contributions. |
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Environmental Services |
269 |
577 |
308 |
Costs relating to the spot hire of vehicles, essential PPE and senior management overheads. Offset in part by an improvement in cost of agency resulting from the spending controls in place during the year. |
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Place |
389 |
324 |
(65) |
Reduced income generation within Planning and Architects offset by the release of initiative and reserve contribution budgets following year-end review of the reserve levels held. |
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Digital Innovation |
(205) |
(403) |
(198) |
Improvement in the contract and termination fees. Reduced professional fees cost relating to upgrades and delay in planned work and increased level of eligible capitalised costs. |
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Total City Operations |
(977) |
(3,797) |
(2,820) |
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Cabinet Office |
(7) |
(248) |
(241) |
Increased receipt of income within tourism, released initiative budgets, particularly UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) and the Hothouse project. Improved position in staffing budgets. |
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Corporate Leadership Office |
62 |
109 |
47 |
Senior Management recruitment costs and essential Staff Training costs. |
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Finance & Property |
882 |
703 |
(179) |
Increased costs relating to the waking watch at New England House, increased maintenance costs and reduced income across corporate buildings. These were offset by income received for contributions to social value pledge as well as other income contributions for WRBS and underspends across service budgets. |
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Governance & Law |
(350) |
(648) |
(298) |
Improved income for legal services and land registry. Impact of spend controls across all service areas greater than anticipated. |
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People & Innovation |
146 |
83 |
(63) |
Improvement in innovation underspends in initiatives and staffing budgets. |
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Contribution to Orbis |
2 |
(42) |
(44) |
An improvement in the overall partnership results mainly due to underspends on IT&D, Internal Audit, Finance and Treasury partially offset by an overspends in Insurance and Procurement. |
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Total Central Hub |
735 |
(43) |
(778) |
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Bulk Insurance Premia |
700 |
764 |
64 |
Increase in the number and value of claims settled. |
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Capital Financing Costs |
(747) |
(1,131) |
(384) |
Accrued interest of (£0.413m) on a loan to BDBF has now been recognised as payable. Other net movements totalling £0.029m relating to other treasury activity. |
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Levies & Precepts |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Unallocated Contingency & Risk Provisions |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Unringfenced Grants |
(13) |
(509) |
(496) |
Distribution of Business Rate Levy surplus of £0.496m. |
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Housing Benefit Subsidy |
1,039 |
896 |
(143) |
The net position on the recovery of overpayments improved by £0.357m. There was an increase of £0.198m in the pressure in respect of a certain benefit type for vulnerable tenants which is not fully subsidised. Other minor adverse movements of £0.016m. |
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Other Corporate Items |
1,189 |
1,360 |
171 |
£0.106m contribution to corporate bad debt provision. £0.098m writing off historic unrecovered salary overpayments. £0.033m other minor movements. |
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Total Centrally-held Budgets |
2,168 |
1,380 |
(788) |
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Total General Fund |
3,310 |
(1,091) |
(4,401) |
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