Deputy Jonathan Le Tocq, Policy & Resources Committee Member, said: “What I don’t want to see is flip-flop decision-making, particularly at this stage because we haven’t got the time to do other things [other than a GST+ package]. <\/p>\n
“We know from the reviews we’ve had that they won’t necessarily bring in the sorts of money we need in the time frame that we’ve got.”<\/p>\n
Losses have been incurred as a result of a number of factors.<\/p>\n
Core staff numbers have increased by 96 when comparing 2023 to 2024, with the most significant increase in health. <\/p>\n
This increase was focused on the nurses and medical consultants areas, including filling 112 vacant full-time roles, which meant some reduction in reliance on agency workers.<\/p>\n
There were also increases in staffing for teaching, IT and tax services. <\/p>\n
Additionally, the number of core staff costing more than \u00a3110,000 a year (including salary, overtime, social security costs, etc) increased by 48 up to 263. <\/p>\n
Some 54% of these staff work in front-line services in health, education, or home affairs.<\/p>\n
Le Tocq said: “It is clear from the 2024 accounts that significant challenges continue to exist, which is something the next Policy & Resources Committee \u2013 and the assembly as a whole \u2013 will need to focus on as a priority next term. <\/p>\n
“We must promptly find a consensus position on how best to address these challenges.”<\/p>\n
Including entities, the operating deficit was \u00a318.8m as it included the Guernsey Housing Association, Guernsey Electricity and Aurigny, etc. <\/p>\n
However, Policy and Resources is urging the focus of the island’s financial position should be on the “core”, at a \u00a344m deficit, because entities did not contribute to paying for the public services provided by the State, politicians said. <\/p>\n
Soulsby said: “We are not raising enough through taxes to fund the services our community relies on. <\/p>\n
“It is clear that this will need the collective attention of the incoming assembly.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deputy Jonathan Le Tocq, Policy & Resources Committee Member, said: “What I don’t want to see is flip-flop…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,1700,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-209018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114735545324791203","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}