Finance & Delivery Committee - May 2020

This document contains the agenda for the Cairngorms National Park Authority Finance & Delivery Committee meeting on 22 May 2020, held via video conferencing. The agenda includes welcoming attendees, apologies for absence, approving minutes from previous meetings, discussing matters arising, declarations of interest, and a discussion on the final accounts. Also on the agenda are confidential items including a discussion on the 2020/21 budget and an update on the TGLP financial position. The next meeting is scheduled for 28 August 2020.

This document contains the draft minutes from the Cairngorms National Park Authority's Finance and Delivery Committee meeting held on 6 March 2020. The meeting covered updates on action points from the previous meeting, including the The Grant in Aid Legacy Programme (TGLP), comments and observations regarding the programme, and a discussion on the relationship with the Outdoor Access Trust for Scotland (OATS), including proposed changes to their Articles of Association. Furthermore, the committee reviewed the finance monitoring for the ten months leading up to 31 January 2020, and the development of the 2020/21 budget and considered the update on the estimated budget position for 2020/21, with the next meeting scheduled for 22 May 2020.

This document contains the Cairngorms National Park Authority's draft financial outturn position for the financial year ending 31 March 2020, as presented to external auditors. It focuses on the Authority's use of grant in aid from the Scottish Government for the 2019/20 financial year, which is subject to external audit and may change. The Finance and Delivery Committee is asked to note the provisional expenditure and consider any financial or governance issues. The Authority's budgets are based on the grant in aid and monitored by the Finance and Delivery Committee. The draft final accounts show a slight underspend in revenue and full use of capital grant in aid, with the accounts very close to full use of grant in aid allocations, and the Finance team continue to work with auditors, Grant Thornton.