Purpose

To present Cabinet with the latest detailed
financial outturn report and identify any additional financial
approvals that are required.

Content

That Cabinet noted:

·      
The General Fund forecast £11.7m adverse outturn variance
against the approved budget for 2023/24.

·      
The performance on delivery of savings (as summarised in Section
3).

·      
The General Fund additional net risk of £1.1m against which
Executive Directors plan to mitigate in full (as summarised in
Section 4).

·      
A forecast underspend of £0.8m within the HRA and that over-
or under-spends that materialise on the HRA will be funded by a
transfer from or to the HRA general reserve at the end of the
financial year.

·      
A forecast in-year deficit of £16.4m accumulating to a total
£56.1m carried forward deficit in the DSG for 2023/24.

·      
A breakeven position on Public Health services.

·      
A forecast £2.9m underspend against the revised Capital
Programme’s Budget (Section 6).

·      
The grant bid application to Sport England for swimming pool
support funding

·      
The temporary funding sources totalling £1.1m to facilitate
temporary support for LA Maintained Schools and nurseries in
financial difficulty.
 
That Cabinet:

·      
Approved the Great Western Credit Union request to approve a loan
from City Funds of £0.7m at a fixedrate for 7 years (Section
7.1 and Appendix A2).

·      
Authorised the Executive Director, Adult and Communities, in
consultation with the council’s S151 Officer and the Deputy
Mayor with responsibility for Finance, Governance and
Performance’s acceptance of the grant from Sport England for
swimming pool support funding if successful and the procurement and
contract award for expenditure of that funding.

·      
Approved the proposed redesignation of the Traded with School
reserve of £0.250m to facilitate temporary support for LA
Maintained Schools and nurseries in financial difficulty (Section
7.2 and Appendix A5).