Transaction 106752 Deloitte LLP - Promotional Expenses £27,000

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Dear Chorley Borough Council,

In your spending tables you nearly always put some kind of narrative explaining the expenditure.

In this example, the narrative field is blank.

Service Division Code 1008
Organisational Unit Governance
Expenditure Category Promotional Expenses
Expenditure Code 40159
CIPFA detailed expediture [sic] type Miscellaneous Expenses
CIPFA detailed expediture [sic] code 5034
Narrative [Blank field]
Date 09/10/2015
Transaction number 106752
Net Amount £27,000.00
Capital and Revenue Revenue
Supplier Name Deloitte LLP

Can you please confirm the expenditure categories are correct as published by the council, and provide a narrative for the expenditure as to the nature of the promotional expense?

Yours faithfully,

Peter Malpas

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Dear Mr Talbot

I am writing in response to your request for information under the terms
of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Ref No FOI/17/089.

Please find below, the details of your request and our response in blue.

 

 

Requested:

 

In your spending tables you nearly always put some kind of narrative
explaining the expenditure.

 

In this example, the narrative field is blank.

 

Service Division Code                                 1008

Organisational Unit                                   Governance

Expenditure Category                               Promotional Expenses

Expenditure Code                                            40159

CIPFA detailed expediture [sic] type  Miscellaneous Expenses CIPFA
detailed expediture [sic] code  5034

Narrative                                                     [Blank
field]

Date                                                            09/10/2015

Transaction number                                  106752      

Net Amount                                               £27,000.00

Capital and Revenue                                 Revenue

Supplier Name                                          Deloitte LLP

 

Can you please confirm the expenditure categories are correct as published
by the council, and provide a narrative for the expenditure as to the
nature of the promotional expense?

 

 

The code for this expenditure was correct

 

The narrative for the expenditure is:

50% Marketing & Promotions Market Walk Shopping Centre 2014/15

 

Further Explanation

 

In 2014/15 Deloittes acted as the Council’s agent to manage Market Walk in
the interim before the Council managed it internally in 2015/16 onwards.
As such Deloittes were responsible for invoicing the tenants and managing
the service charge accounts.  As the landlord of Market Walk shopping
centre the Council incurs £54,000 per annum towards marketing and
promotions for the shopping centre.  As per the RICS Guidance on
Commercial Service Charges the funding of marketing and promotional
activities is recognised as a shared cost to be borne by both owners and
occupiers in partnership.  Full partnership provides for owner and
occupier sharing the costs on a 50:50 basis.

 

As such the tenants contribute towards 50% of these costs, £27,000 per
year, as part of the overall service charge.

 

At the request of Deloittes the following transactions took place:

 

 1. The Council incurred £54k of expenditure in 2014/15 for marketing and
promotions and invoiced Deloittes £54k
 2. Deloittes then invoiced the Council £27k for the 2014/15 marketing and
promotions – however the invoice from Deloittes was not sent until the
following financial year

 

 

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