Cabinet considered a report by the Head of Finance, Governance and Assurance on the current position for the Council’s 2014/15 to 2017/18 capital programme taking into account the latest monitoring information on the progress of the schemes, any necessary budget increases and decreases and the re-profiling of budgets between 2014/15 and future years.

(a)  That approval be given to the net budget variations of £0.5m to the 2014/15 capital programme, detailed in Appendix 1/Table 1 and the re-profiled 2014/15 capital budget of £70.9m.

(b)  That approval be given to the re-profiled capital budgets of £18.3m for 2015/16 and £5,4m for 2016/17 as detailed in Appendix 1/Table 4.

(c)  That Council be recommended to approve the budget increases for new external funding of £2.24m in additional Highways Maintenance funding from the Department of Transport for expenditure in 2014/15 and an additional £1.5m grant for BDUK for the current Broadband Project.

(d)  That the expenditure to date of £5.7m, representing 8.1% of the revised capital budget for 2014/15, with 25% of the year having elapsed, be accepted.