Education has biggest overspend of £2m.
THREE committees overspent their budgets last year.
Education, Sport & Culture overspent by £2m, a combination of its failure to meet a savings targets of £3.5m, which was offset by vacancies and a reduction in spending on higher education grants.
Home Affairs overspent by £534,000, including £350,000 because it did not hit savings targets.
Health & Social Care recorded a minor overspend of £177,000.
These overspends were offset by a collective underspend of £2.4m by other committees.
The figures are in the 2018 States Accounts, released late yesterday.
They confirmed an unallocated surplus of £9.7m.
Income tax receipts increased from £324.1m in 2017 to £332.5m in 2018.
‘Such real-terms’ growth is an indicator of continued strength in the economy, and is supported by the increases in the numbers employed,’ the report states.
Income from other taxes, which totalled £85.7m, increased by £5.9m between 2017 and 2018.
Total expenditure on pay during the year was £231.8m, which is an increase of £3.4m or 1.5% in real terms.
The effect of 2018 pay awards accounts for £6.7m of the increase.
There are now four individuals whose pay package, including salary and pension, costs the States more than £250,000, compared to one in 2017.
This was due to a ‘back-dated pay award and a one-off payment’.
