Decision details

Revenue and Capital Budget Monitoring, Cash Limits and Virements - April 2012 to December 2012

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Decision status: Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

This report presents the third monitoring information for the Authority as a whole for the financial year 2012/13 to the end of December 2012. The report also includes a number of budget transfer requests for both revenue and capital that require Cabinet agreement or are reported for information purposes as prescribed by the Budget Management Scheme.

Decision:

(1) To NOTE the projected outturn position for 2012/13 and accompanying information provided in the report;

(2) To ASK the Strategic Directors to continue to work towards managing within budget in the current year for their respective service areas, and to manage below budget where possible by not committing unnecessary expenditure, through tight budgetary control;

(3) To NOTE the capital expenditure position for the Council in the financial year to the end of December and the year end projections detailed in the report;

(4) To AGREE the revenue virements listed for approval in the report; and

(5) To NOTE the changes in the capital programme.

Reasons for the decision:

The report is presented as part of the reporting of financial management and budgetary control required by the Council.

Alternative options considered:

None

Report author: Jamie Whittard

Publication date: 14/02/2013

Date of decision: 13/02/2013

Decided at meeting: 13/02/2013 - Cabinet

Effective from: 22/02/2013

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