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Earmarked reserves at 31 March 2006 Appendix 4
(1) |
(2) |
(3) |
(4) |
(5) |
(6) | |
Balance 1 April 2005 |
Income / (Expenditure) during 2005/06 |
Appropriations (to) / from Revenue 2005/06 |
Appropriations (to) / from Capital 2005/06 |
Net contributions to / (from) reserves in 2005/06 |
Balance at 31 March 2006 | |
£'000 |
£'000 |
£'000 |
£'000 |
£'000 |
£'000 | |
Schools General Reserve (Note 1) |
34,999 |
- |
3,378 |
- |
3,378 |
38,377 |
Less temporary use for capital funding |
-4,246 |
- |
- |
-742 |
-742 |
-4,988 |
30,753 |
- |
3,378 |
-742 |
2,636 |
33,389 | |
General Capital Reserve |
3,615 |
- |
- |
-3,615 |
-3,615 |
- |
Trading accounts |
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1. Former DSOs |
750 |
114 |
143 |
- |
257 |
1,007 |
2. Supplies |
987 |
116 |
15 |
- |
131 |
1,118 |
3. Printing |
301 |
32 |
74 |
- |
106 |
407 |
4. IT Services |
507 |
-961 |
- |
- |
-961 |
-454 |
5. Caretaking & Cleaning |
122 |
9 |
- |
- |
9 |
131 |
6. Services to Schools |
1,320 |
460 |
- |
- |
460 |
1,780 |
7. Arts Marketing |
10 |
1 |
- |
- |
1 |
11 |
8. River Hamble |
87 |
198 |
- |
- |
198 |
285 |
Designated underspendings (Note 2) |
4,356 |
- |
-791 |
- |
-791 |
3,565 |
Other |
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1. Insurance |
6,635 |
- |
1,200 |
-535 |
665 |
7,300 |
2. Segensworth units |
220 |
-17 |
- |
- |
-17 |
203 |
3. Historic publications |
45 |
1 |
- |
- |
1 |
46 |
4. Invest to save (Note 3) |
328 |
- |
-75 |
- |
-75 |
253 |
5. Job-evaluation transitional costs |
4,750 |
- |
5,650 |
- |
5,650 |
10,400 |
6. Grant equalisation |
20,925 |
- |
2,825 |
- |
2,825 |
23,750 |
7. Modernisation, restructuring and efficiency |
- |
- |
3,505 |
- |
3,505 |
3,505 |
8. PSA reward grant |
- |
- |
2,712 |
- |
2,712 |
2,712 |
9. LATs income |
- |
- |
3,538 |
- |
3,538 |
3,538 |
75,711 |
-47 |
22,174 |
-4,892 |
17,235 |
92,946 |
Annex 1 - Appendix 4
Notes to summary of earmarked reserves at 31 March 2006
1 Schools general reserve
In aggregate schools incurred expenditure of £3,378,000 less than their delegated budgets increasing the reserve to £38,377,000 at the end of the year. The table below summarises the position over categories of school.
Variation in the year |
Balance at 31 March 2006 | |||
£'000 |
£'000 |
% of budget | ||
Nursery |
145 |
353 |
26.0 | |
Primary |
946 |
21,010 |
7.1 | |
Secondary |
1,853 |
14,294 |
5.3 | |
Special |
434 |
2,720 |
9.7 | |
3,378 |
38,377 |
6.4 | ||
The average level of school reserves has risen as a proportion of budget from 6.3% to 6.4% during 2005/06. £4,988,000 of school reserves have been used temporarily to finance Education capital expenditure, through the School balances loan scheme.
2
3 Designated underspendings
The table below summarises the movements in the reserve balances during 2005/06.
Variations arising from |
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Balance 1 April 2005 |
2005/06 Budget |
2004/05 Final accounts |
2005/06 Revised budget |
2005/06 Final accounts |
Balance 31 March 2006 | |
£'000 |
£'000 |
£'000 |
£'000 |
£'000 |
£'000 | |
Adults |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Children |
402 |
- |
-402 |
- |
- |
- |
Environment |
8 |
- |
-8 |
255 |
7 |
262 |
Policy & Resources |
970 |
-749 |
-65 |
225 |
- |
381 |
Recreation and Heritage |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Matched Standards Fund contribution |
1,645 |
- |
-1,645 |
- |
1,386 |
1,386 |
Sickness / Maternity leave buy back |
-247 |
- |
247 |
- |
-267 |
-267 |
School meals buy back |
196 |
- |
- |
- |
-125 |
71 |
Hillier Gardens development fund |
128 |
- |
- |
- |
42 |
170 |
Pay and Benefits |
270 |
- |
- |
-133 |
- |
137 |
Second homes income |
984 |
- |
- |
-9 |
- |
975 |
Change for children |
- |
- |
- |
85 |
- |
85 |
Children's Trust (CAMHS) |
- |
- |
- |
- |
365 |
365 |
Total |
4,356 |
-749 |
-1,873 |
423 |
1,408 |
3,565 |
4 Invest to Save
The table below summarises the movements in the reserve balance during 2005/06:
£'000 | ||
Balance at 1 April 2005 |
328 | |
Financing of additional staffing to support generation of capital receipts and business rate appeals |
-265 | |
Repayment in respect of capital receipt generation |
190 | |
Balance at 31 March 2006 |
253 | |
Annex 2 - Appendix 4
Protocol for earmarked reserves
Reserve |
Purpose |
Use of reserve |
Management and control |
Review Process |
Schools |
Earmarking of the balance of unspent delegated budgets. |
1 To supplement school's budget share, to finance capital contributions and to provide a contingency. |
Responsibility of Head teacher and School governing body. |
In addition to review by individual governing body, trends reviewed annually by Education Executive Member. |
2 Up to 25% of total reserve made available on a loan basis to finance school capital projects of an `invest to save' nature. Advances of £5.0m made in 2004/05 and 2005/06 under this scheme mainly to fund rationalisation projects in advance of the realisation of capital receipts. |
Proposals subject to approval of the capital programme, involving executive member, Cabinet and County Council approval. |
Use of loan scheme subject to appraisal of projects and to 25% upper limit. | ||
General capital |
To assist in matching the timing of the availability of capital financing resources with the timing of capital payments. |
To finance locally - resourced capital expenditure. |
By County Treasurer in conjunction with decisions on the financing of the capital programme. |
Reviewed at least twice yearly on closure of the accounts and in approving a new capital programme. Reserve fully utilised in 2005/06 due to revised profile of capital receipts. |
Trading accounts |
To enable business units to carry forward planned surpluses. |
To meet future deficits and/or restructuring costs, to fund capital investment or to return surpluses to customers by reducing prices. |
By responsible Chief Officer subject to Executive Member approval, where appropriate. |
Through production of an annual business plan linked to the budget process . |
Designated underspendings |
To enable individual services to carry forward 100% of planned underspendings and at least 50% of unplanned underspendings |
To fund non-recurring expenditure in future years or to phase-in the requirement for additional funding or to achieve savings |
By service Chief Officer reporting to the Executive Member. Cabinet responsible for approval of cases where more than 50% of a saving is earmarked |
Reviewed annually during budget cycle |
Insurance |
To cover fire, flood and storm damage reinstatement costs which are already committed and to reserve against adverse trends in liability claims. |
To supplement annual `premiums' charged to services. |
Chief Executive and County Treasurer subject to Cabinet approval. |
At least annually on closure of the accounts. In view of outstanding fire reinstatement commitments, a contribution of £1.2m to the reserve is proposed in 2005/06. |
Invest to save |
To provide funding for investment which will generate future cash savings which can be recycled back into the reserve |
For approved investment purposes subject to Cabinet or Policy and Resources Executive Member approval |
County Treasurer subject to Cabinet approval |
Reviewed annually in conjunction with proposals in the budget meeting invest to save criteria. Currently being used to support initiatives to secure additional capital receipts and business rate revaluations. |
Job evaluation transitional costs |
To assist in meeting transitional costs likely to arise from implementation of the Pay and Benefit Review |
To supplement employee budgets in transitional period following implementation |
County Treasurer subject to Cabinet approval |
Further reserve contribution of £5.65m agreed in the 2005/6 revised budget in order to earmark £10m for potential back pay costs. |
Grant equalisation |
To assist in managing the impact of future grant loss initially from the 2003/04 Revenue Support grant formula review and subsequently from the 2006/07 review. |
To compensate for service and/or council tax impact of grant loss. |
County Treasurer subject to Cabinet approval. |
Further contribution of £2.8m in 2005/06 agreed following the 2006/07 grant settlement increasing the balance to £23.7m at 31 March 2006. |
Modernisation, restructuring and efficiency plan. |
A newly established reserve in 2005/06 to assist in funding uncertain future costs associated with the modernisation of the County Council's services. |
To fund pump priming initiatives and continuing higher costs. |
County Treasurer and Chief Executive subject to the approval of the Cabinet. |
Reviewed in each year's budget planning and on an interim basis during the year. At the time of the last review part of the planned 2005/06 contribution was redirected to the grant equalisation reserve. |
PSA reward grant |
Newly established on closure of 2005/06 accounts to earmark the reward grant earned from the first Local PSA for future use. |
To be used in accordance with the policy agreed by the Cabinet in July 2005. |
Subject to relevant executive member approval. |
Policy agreed for the use of the reserve, but subject to review as part of medium term financial strategy. |
LATS income |
Newly established on closure of the 2005/06 accounts to earmark income from the sale of LATs for future use. |
To be used in accordance with the policy agreed by the Cabinet in June 2005 to reduce cost pressures from the existing Waste contract and for further investment in Waste infrastructure. |
County Treasurer and Director of Environment, subject to the approval of the Cabinet. |
At least annually in conjunction with the budget and capital programme process. Initial sales income of £3.5m received in 2005/06 transferred to the reserve. |
Segensworth unit factories |
To enable annual tenant contributions towards repairs to be earmarked for periodic major repair liabilities to infrastructure |
To fund maintenance of specific infrastructure which is the responsibility of the County Council as freeholder |
Director of Property, Business and Regulatory Services subject to terms of relevant agreement |
Reserve is ring-fenced |
Other minor reserves |
Sums set aside for specific future purposes |
To fund spending on specified purpose |
Various |
Reviewed at least annually on closure of the accounts |