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Recommended:           That Council approve the adjustments in the Capital programme of a decrease of £6.350m in 2014/15 as detailed in the report and contained in Annex A.

Reason:                        To enable the effective management and monitoring of the Council’s capital programme.

[See also Part A minute]

Members considered a report which informed them of the likely outturn position of the 2014/15 Capital Programme based on the spend profile and information to January 2015, including under and over spends, programme changes together with any slippage.

The current approved Capital Programme for 2014/15 was £72.555m, financed by £32.063m of external funding, and internal funding of £40.492m.  A decrease of £6.350m, details of which were set out in the report, and had resulted in a revised Capital Programme  budget of £66.205m made up of under spends and net re-profiling to future years. The variances against each portfolio area, together with a summary of the key exceptions and implications on the capital programme, were set out at paragraphs 8 to 45 and at Annex A of the report. A summary of the revised 5 year Capital Programme incorporating the proposed changes highlighted in the report were shown at Table 2 together with the proposed financing at Table 3.

The overall spend and the commitment profile on the Economic Infrastructure Fund over the existing 5 year programme was reported at paragraph 16 and at Annex B of the report

Recommended:           That Council approve the adjustments in the Capital programme of a decrease of £6.350m in 2014/15 as detailed in the report and contained in Annex A. ^1.

Reason:                        To enable the effective management and monitoring of the Council’s capital programme.