| ResourceOutturnm | Resource Budget
m |
Variance
m
|
Departmental Expenditure Limit | 18,687 | 19,113 | (427) |
Annually Managed Expenditure | 3,062 | 3,059 | 3 |
Other Expenditure | (1,832) | (1,848) | 16 |
| 19,916 | 20,324 | (408) |
|
EXPLANATION OF MAJOR VARIANCES | |
Within Departmental Expenditure Limits (DEL) | Variancem | Variance
m | |
Environment and Rural Affairs Department | |
- Delays in launch of new Farm Waste grant and farm business advice schemes.
| (21) | | |
- Planned carry forward of budget provision to cover revised resource accounting treatment of SABRI and SAC pensions.
| (20) | | |
- Reduced demand across a range of rural and environmental schemes including fisheries decommissioning.
| (16) | | |
- Slippage in a number of environmental protection projects including Strategic Waste Fund, Bathing Water and waste initiatives.
| (27) | | |
- Capital charges on water loans which are offset by interest received by the Scottish Consolidated Fund.
| 38 | | |
| | (46) | |
Development Department | | | |
- Planned carry forward of budget provision to fund future community ownership commitments.
| (75) | | |
- Slippage on homelessness projects associated with site acquisition and planning issues.
| (17) | | |
- Delays in local authority spend of the central heating programme and social inclusion.
| (5) | | |
- Increased spend by Scottish Homes to meet pension fund liabilities and redemption of outstanding debt offset by underspends across a range of miscellaneous projects.
| 26 | | |
| | (71) | |
Education Department | |
- Legislative delays in the Additional Support Needs programme, delays across a range of project work and the allocation of the National Priorities Action Fund.
| (44) | | |
- Additional funding provided to the Murray Archive and Tourism offset by slippage in refurbishment work at the national museum.
| 7 | | |
| | (37) |
|
Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning Department | |
- Delays in the implementation of various schemes including renewable energy efficiency and broadband, and planned carry forward of budget provision to meet future partnership commitments.
| (49) | | |
- Reduced level of student awards and charges associated with student loans.
| (29) | | |
- Reduced level of track access charges.
| (13) | | |
- Slower than anticipated take up of Integrated Transport Fund grants and delays in the Road Haulage Modernisation programme.
| (15) | | |
- Delays in the implementation of ERDF Objective 2 programmes.
| (7) | | |
| | (113) | |
Finance and Central Services Department | |
- Planned carry forward of budget provision to meet future commitments associated with the Cities Review and Fire pay.
| (33) | | |
- Delays across a number of projects including Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics, digital inclusion and Fresh Talent initiatives.
| (10) | | |
Health Department | |
- Monitoring of NHS Boards' forecast outturn during the course of the year indicated that NHS Boards were heading for a significant overspend on their budgets. In order to ensure that the Health Department Budget as a whole did not overspend a decision was taken to reduce expenditure on central projects in order to generate sufficient savings to cover any overspend by NHS Boards. In addition the Health Department Budget was increased by 85m at the Spring Budget Revision in order to ensure that the overall Budget was not breached. In the event NHS Boards were able to take management action internally to reduce their overspends so that overall they only overspent by 1.4m. However, by the time that this reduction in the NHS Boards' overspend emerged the savings on the central Budgets had already been actioned and it was too late to reverse them.
| | (123) | |
|
Justice Department | | | |
- Increased spending on demand led legal aid partly offset by planned underspending on miscellaneous programme.
| 6 | | |
- Underspend on Criminal Injuries Compensation programme.
| (2) | | |
- Overspend in Prison's expenditure resulting from recognition of liabilities following the Napier judgement.
| 10 | | |
- Underspends across a range of criminal justice social work schemes including Youth Crime and Bridging Pilots partly offset by an overspend in justice support to local authorities.
| (5) | | |
- Planned overspend on Scottish Courts building maintenance offset by capital underspend.
| 16 | | |
| | 25 | |
Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal | |
- Managed underspend mainly in staff costs and accommodation expenditure.
| (5) | | |
| | (5) | |
Administration | |
- Managed underspend mainly in staff costs to meet anticipated future years pressures.
| (14) | | |
| | (14) | |
Total within Departmental Expenditure Limit | | (427) | |
| | | |
Other variances outwith Departmental Expenditure Limit | |
Annually Managed Expenditure | | | |
CAP market support and accompanying measures | (10) | | |
Housing management and support | (16) | | |
Education maintenance allowance | (4) | | |
Capital Charges | 33 | | |
| | 3 | |
Other Expenditure | | | |
| | | |
Housing stock transfer debt repayment | (52) | | |
European Structural Funds | (6) | | |
National Insurance contributions | 60 | | |
Police loan charges | 14 | | |
| | 16 | |
Total Outwith Departmental Expenditure Limit | | 19 | |
|
Total Variances | | (408) | |