Forecast

Forecast

 

 

 

Variance

Variance

 

 

 

Month 7

Month 9

Movement

 

Service

£'000

£'000

£'000

Explanation of Main Movements

Commissioning & Communities

425

(158)

(583)

Use of grant and one-off funding, including Public Health funding and ongoing spending control and vacancy management measures

Education & Learning

168

(199)

(367)

Reduction in PFI Contractor costs, Early Year and Nursery Costs and Synergy Implementation Costs

Family Help & Protection

972

536

(436)

Use of Transformation and Young Futures grants, delays in placing children in in-house residential provision, reducing numbers of families receiving adoption allowances, ongoing vacancies and success of FRP measures, see below.

Public Health

0

0

0

 

Further Financial Recovery Measures

(120)

0

120

See above

Total Families, Children & Wellbeing

1,445

179

(1,266)

 

Adult Social Care

4,004

3,472

(532)

Increased spend on Physical & Sensory Community Care offset by increased income in Mental Health and reductions created by spending controls and line by line review of spend

Integrated Commissioning

158

242

84

Increase in spend on Crossroads Project and Carers Support

Housing People Services

5,238

4,944

(294)

Mainly due to new block booked DPS contract transferring some spot units to block booked at a reduced rate

Homes & Investment

(9)

(10)

(1)

 

Further Financial Recovery Measures

(1,159)

(55)

1,104

Primarily due to delay in the implementation several savings initiatives

Total Homes & Adult Social Care

8,232

8,593

361

 

City Infrastructure

(2,271)

(2,608)

(337)

Reduction in expenditure through releasing of maintenance revenue budgets that are used to support capital programmes in year

Culture & Environment

(77)

(444)

(367)

Impact of tightened spend controls being forecast.

Environmental Services

549

367

(182)

£0.100m improvement in purchases as an impact of tightened spend controls. Revised forecasts reflecting spends related to Food Waste Collection Project

Place

726

439

(287)

Increased planning income in addition to impact of tightened spend controls.

Digital Innovation

(570)

(790)

(220)

Continued reduction in forecast expenditure due to ongoing spending and vacancy controls. Vacancies continue to be held, plus some lower than expected costs on contracts.

Further Financial Recovery Measures

(150)

0

150

Recovery Measure reflected in forecast

Total City Operations

(1,793)

(3,036)

(1,243)

 

Cabinet Office

(227)

(488)

(261)

Underspend mainly driven by income generation in tourism and marketing, and savings in Greater Brighton Economic Board initiatives. 

Corporate Leadership Office

37

149

112

Movement is a result of mandatory training, staffing pressure and consultants fees.

Finance & Property

1,248

1,064

(184)

A combination of higher than anticipated charges in property services £0.211m, £0.140m adjustments to WRBS forecast on court income offset by reprofilling of budgets to capital in property services £0.360m and other income in the wider directorate.

Governance & Law

(294)

(455)

(161)

Combination of an increase in forecast income for Registrars, plus lower than expected costs for Coroner services.

People & Innovation

(444)

(492)

(48)

Movement is a result in improvement in staffing and operational spend savings in H&SFBS £0.150m offset by changes in forecast in HR services.

Contribution to Orbis

68

68

0

No Movement

Total Central Hub

388

(154)

(542)

 

Bulk Insurance Premia

195

195

0

 

Capital Financing Costs

(3,260)

(3,733)

(473)

Net movements largely relating to the timing and value of new external borrowing compared to previous assumptions, managing cash flow requirements and seeking best value in a fluctuating interest rate environment.

Levies & Precepts

0

0

0

 

Unallocated Contingency & Risk Provisions

0

(1,747)

(1,747)

Release of centrally held risk provision to support in year position.

Unringfenced Grants

0

(496)

(496)

Estimate of potential redistribution of business rates levy surplus

Housing Benefit Subsidy

915

5,640

4,725

Identification of additional subsidy loss for 2024/25 and 2025/26 relating to misallocation of claims on the subsidy claim form.

Other Corporate Items

1,654

(580)

(2,234)

 

Total Centrally-held Budgets

(496)

(721)

(225)

 

Total General Fund

7,776

4,861

(2,915)