Decisions for issue Targeted Budget Management (TBM) Provisional Outturn 2021/22

RESOLVED: That the Committee –

(i)             Notee that the provisional General Fund outturn position is an underspend of £2.948m and that this represents an improvement of £1.855m compared to the projected and planned resource position at Month 9 and taken into account when setting the 2022/23 budget;

(ii)            Noted the provisional outturn includes an underspend of £3.277m on the council’s share of the NHS managed Section 75 services;

(iii)          Approved General Fund carry forward requests totalling £9.776m as detailed in Appendix 5 and included in the provisional outturn;

(iv)          Approved the re-allocation of £1.112m Contain Outbreak Management Funds to address ongoing temporary and emergency homelessness and rough sleeping costs caused by the pandemic;

(v)           Agreed to allocate the £200,000 one-off resources for ‘Additional Welfare Support’ to support Emergency Food provision (£63,156) and the Local Discretionary Social Fund (£133,844), in order to support residents through this cost of living crisis, particularly those who have been disproportionately affected by the rise in inflation, the pandemic, and austerity, such as women and girls, almost half of whom are suffering from period poverty and are unable to afford basic sanitary products according to a recent study;

(vi)          Approved the retention of the remaining available outturn resources of £1.655m to provide a risk provision to meet the anticipated additional cost of the 2022/23 NJC pay award as set out in paragraph 10.6;

(vii)         Noted the provisional outturn for the separate Housing Revenue Account (HRA), which is an underspend of £0.033m;

(viii)       Noted the provisional outturn position for the ring-fenced Dedicated Schools Grant, which is an underspend of £0.035m;

(ix)          Noted the provisional outturn position on the capital programme which is an underspend variance of £7.405m;

(x)           Approved the capital budget variations and re-profiling requested in Appendix 7;

(xi)          Approved the new capital schemes requested in Appendix 8;

(xii)         Approved the creation of a Section 117 Reserve in respect of advance NHS funding as set out in paragraph 9.9.