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Forecast |
Forecast |
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Variance |
Variance |
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Month 5 |
Month 7 |
Movement |
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Service |
£'000 |
£'000 |
£'000 |
Explanation of Main Movements |
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Commissioning & Communities |
570 |
425 |
(145) |
Home to school pupil number increase in September has been less than anticipated. |
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Education & Learning |
370 |
168 |
(202) |
Use of one-off Public Health Funding. |
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Family Help & Protection |
1,311 |
972 |
(339) |
Use of one-off Public Health Funding and success of FRP measures. |
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Public Health |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
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Further Financial Recovery Measures |
(320) |
(120) |
200 |
See above |
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Total Families, Children & Wellbeing |
1,931 |
1,445 |
(486) |
|
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Adult Social Care |
4,293 |
4,004 |
(289) |
Utilised various grant funding for Adult Social Care |
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Integrated Commissioning |
42 |
158 |
116 |
Unfunded rent and management charges at Wellington Road. |
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Housing People Services |
6,135 |
5,238 |
(897) |
Due to efficiencies and additional funding received from MHCLG. |
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Homes & Investment |
(10) |
(9) |
1 |
Minor movement. |
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Further Financial Recovery Measures |
(3,029) |
(1,159) |
1,870 |
Financial Recovery measures updated and savings achieved are reflected above |
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Total Homes & Adult Social Care |
7,431 |
8,232 |
801 |
|
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City Infrastructure |
(2,014) |
(2,271) |
(257) |
Minor improvements in parking income forecast. Improvements from review of the work and costs related to repairs to the City's network of £0.203m offset by s278 pressures of £0.180m. Improvements in Road Works Permit and Traffic Management incomes of £0.166m. |
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Environment & Culture |
287 |
(77) |
(364) |
Improved income forecasts for the Brighton Centre of £0.042m. Improvements in Bereavement fees of £0.084m and improvements in staffing forecast of £0.97m reflecting net vacancies and recruitments. £0.131m improvement in City Parks from forecast surplus Preston Parks parking income released plus revised staffing forecasts. £0.095m improvement in Sport & Leisure from further Leisure management incomes. Offset by £0.080m movement in Seafront Services from revised forecasts for Hove Beach Park where year 1 incomes do not fully cover revenue expenditure of £0.048m due to rent free periods and additional responsive repairs required for seafront of £0.032m. |
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Environmental Services |
411 |
549 |
138 |
£0.264m improvement in forecast for use of Agency Staff for service delivery as the service continues to stabilise. £0.160m additional costs due to late billing required for night security costs for the ongoing threat to the depot. £0.060m additional temporary staffing costs for temporary additional capacity to reduce vehicle defects for which staff have converted to permanent contracts within the establishment. £0.050m pressure from unachievable income target of selling fleet services to external customers. £0.050m reduction in forecast enforcement incomes due to fewer people choosing to pay enforcement fines and insufficient service and legal capacity to chase large non-payers. |
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Place |
198 |
726 |
528 |
Adverse movement relates to costs associated with legal claims offset in part improved income and forecast staffing costs for the year. |
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Digital Innovation |
(525) |
(570) |
(45) |
Minor improvements due to a staffing forecast review. |
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Further Financial Recovery Measures |
(150) |
(150) |
0 |
|
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Total City Operations |
(1,793) |
(1,793) |
0 |
|
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Cabinet Office |
(169) |
(227) |
(58) |
Review of expenditure at Month 7 resulting in adjustment of forecast. Underspend mainly driven by staffing savings and underspends in subscriptions to organisations. |
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Corporate Leadership Office |
84 |
37 |
(47) |
Improvement following a further review of operations and staffing forecast at Month 7 |
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Finance & Property |
3,372 |
1,248 |
(2,124) |
Movement mainly from presentation change, with further recovery plans now included in individual services as well as an improvement in savings and income in Building and Surveyors portfolio. |
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Governance & Law |
(429) |
(294) |
135 |
Change mainly the result of a change in presentation. One off litigation income from Truck Cartel that was previously reported here is now reported under Finance. |
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People & Innovation |
(72) |
(444) |
(372) |
Combination of forecast income generation and improvement in staffing savings as a result of holding vacancies in services in the directorate. |
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Contribution to Orbis |
67 |
68 |
1 |
Minor movement |
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Further Financial Recovery Measures |
(1,500) |
0 |
1,500 |
Further Recovery Plans now reported in individual services from which they are expected to be achieved. |
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Total Central Hub |
1,353 |
388 |
(965) |
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Bulk Insurance Premia |
195 |
195 |
0 |
|
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Capital Financing Costs |
(2,215) |
(3,260) |
(1,045) |
A combination of the Capital Programme Review reducing the in-year borrowing need and an increase in anticipated investment returns due to improved cash flow forecasts. |
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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 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Housing Benefit Subsidy |
915 |
915 |
0 |
|
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Other Corporate Items |
1,589 |
1,654 |
65 |
£0.071m pressure as Public health contribution to General Fund services now reflected in FCW forecasts. Partially offset by £0.006m improvement in national Insurance saving relating to AVC contributions. |
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Total Centrally-held Budgets |
484 |
(496) |
(980) |
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Total General Fund |
9,406 |
7,776 |
(1,630) |
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