APPENDIX 1 – FIRST QUARTER BUDGET MONITORING
 

 

 


Contents

 

Part A: First Quarter Revenue Budget 2023/24

    

A1)    Revenue Budget   

A2)    Significant Variances                                           

                                                                 

Part B: First Quarter Capital Budget 2023/24     

B1)    Capital Budget  

B2)    Significant Variances                                                          

 

 

 

 

 

                                                  

Part A - First Quarter Revenue Budget 2023/24A1)  Revenue Budget: Planning, Infrastructure & Economic Development   (PIED) PAC

A2.1  The table below provides a detailed summary of the budgeted net expenditure position for the services reporting directly into PIED PAC at the end of Quarter 1. The financial figures are presented on an accruals basis (i.e. expenditure for goods and services received, but not yet paid for, is included).

A2.2  This table now shows the variance split between expenditure and income to give more of an insight into the nature of the variance.

 

 


PIED Revenue Budget: NET EXPENDITURE (@ 1st Quarter 2023/24)

 

 

By Cabinet Member

 

 

 

 


A2)  PIED Revenue Budget: Significant Variances

A2.1  Within the headline figures, there are a number of both adverse and favourable net expenditure variances for individual cost centres. It is important that the implications of variances are considered at an early stage, so that contingency plans can be put in place and, if necessary, be used to inform future financial planning.  Variances will be reported to each of the Policy Advisory Committees on a quarterly basis throughout 2023/24.

A2.2  The table below highlights and provides further detail on the most significant variances at the end of Quarter 1.

PIED PAC Variances (@ 1st Quarter 2023/24)

 

Positive Variance

Q4

Adverse

Variance

Q4

Year End Forecast Variance

 

Planning, Infrastructure & Economic Development

£000

PLANNING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

 

 

 

Former Park & Ride Sites – These are budgets that were used to fund the Business Rates and running costs for the site. They are no longer required and will be removed for 2024/25.

80

 

100

                                   

 

Positive Variance

Q4

Adverse

Variance

Q4

Year End Forecast Variance

 

Planning, Infrastructure & Economic Development

£000

PLANNING SERVICES

 

 

 

Development Control (Majors) – Numbers of applications are down as developers are waiting for the Local Plan to be approved before they submit new ones.

 

-90

-150

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Part B - First Quarter Capital Budget 2023/24 


B1)  Capital Budget 2023/24 (@ 1st Quarter 2023/24)

 

 

B2)  Capital Budget Variances (@ 1st Quarter 2023/24)

 

Planning, Infrastructure & Economic Development

Town Centre Strategy – The current strategy is being reviewed and updated and is unlikely to be adopted until early 2024, so it is anticipated that there will be some spend in the final quarter of the year.