6 2022-23 OUT-TURN REPORT AND ANNUAL RETURN PDF 524 KB
Report to
be presented by Dewi A.Morgan, CJC Head of Finance (Statutory Finance Officer)
and Sian Pugh, CJC Assistant Head of Finance.
Additional documents:
Decision:
1. To note and accept the Corporate Joint Committee's
actual expenditure for 2022/23 as submitted in Appendix 1 to the report.
2. To obtain the approval of the Corporate Joint
Committee to the underspend in 2022/23 and for this underspend to be
transferred to a reserve fund to be earmarked to finance future one-off costs.
3. To approve the Corporate Joint Committee’s Official
Annual Return for 2022/23 (subject to External Audit), in line with the
statutory deadline of 31 May 2023. It has been duly completed and certified by
Cyngor Gwynedd's Head of Finance, as the Statutory Finance Officer for the
Corporate Joint Committee (Appendix 2).
Minutes:
The report was submitted by Section 151 Officer and
the Deputy Section 151 Officer.
DECISION
1. To note and accept the Corporate Joint
Committee's actual expenditure for 2022/23 as submitted in Appendix 1 of the
report.
2. To obtain the approval of the Corporate Joint
Committee to the underspend in 2022/23 and for this underspend to be
transferred to a reserve fund to be earmarked to finance future one-off costs.
3.
To
approve the Joint Committee’s Official Annual Return for 2022/23 (subject to
External Audit), in line with the statutory deadline of 31 May 2023. It has
been duly completed and certified by Cyngor Gwynedd's Head of Finance, as the
Statutory Finance Officer for the Joint Committee (Appendix 2).
DISCUSSION
It was confirmed that the out-turn report confirmed the Joint
Committee's expenditure and balances during the previous financial year. It was explained that at the end of the
financial year 2022/2023, there was an underspend of £238,098 in the Joint Committee's
budget. It was noted that there was underspend in every aspect of the Joint
Committee's expenditure, excluding Finance and Legal Services Support
(including the Monitoring Officer).
It was explained that the 2022 estimate of local authorities’ population
was used instead of the census results since that was what was agreed upon
whilst deciding the original budget. It was explained that different population
figures had been used for Cyngor Gwynedd and Conwy County Borough Council to
allocate the costs of planning functions in comparison with all other costs,
since the cost for planning were allocated to the Eryri
National Park Authority for the population that lived within the Park's
boundaries rather than the councils.