Minutes of the Twenty First Meeting of the Board of NHS Leicester ...

Paper CNHS Leicester City Board Meeting12 May 2011Capital19. Capital was under spent by £0.850m at the end of March 2011. An analysis ofthis under spend is reported in table 6.Table 6 - Capital Slippage at March 2011Scheme Description Plan Expenditure Variance£m £m £mEast Park Road 0.706 0.387 0.319Health Centre Major Schemes 0.635 0.543 0.092Other Estates Schemes 0.007 -0.402 0.409IM&T Schemes 0.573 0.543 0.030Total 1.921 1.071 0.85020. A large component of the under spend relates to the East Park Road schemewhich is due for final completion in July 2011 following delays due to theadverse weather conditions in the winter. The major health centre schemeshave under spent by £0.092m, the majority of which is due to therefurbishment at Prince Philip House which is due for completion In May 2011.21. Other estate schemes have under spent by £0.409m due to a significant VATrefund relating to assets under construction brought forward from the previousyear and a write-off of assets under construction that could not be verified tospecific assets i.e. these were charged to the income and expenditure andtherefore credited the capital resource limit. (Note that if the costs had beentransferred to the fixed asset register the values would also have resulted in acharge to the income and expenditure as impairment).Cash22. NHSLC did not utilise all its cash resource and left £10.843m of its cash limitwith the Department of Health. Therefore of the cash that we drew down duringthe year at the end of March we were left with £0.6k in our cashbook.23. Table 7 provides details of the reason for the non utilisation of the £10.8m cashthat was left with the Department of Health. With regard to the Butterwickprovision, we had been planned to settle this year but cash settlement is nowexpected to be during 2011/12.Joel Martin 6Head of Corporate Finance