2023 Report details for project: Blythe House Programme
| Project name | Blythe House Programme - there are 7 reports for this project: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 |
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| Organisation | DCMS (D5 ) - see all reports for this organisation |
| Report year | 2023 (data is from September 2022) |
| Category | Infrastructure - see all reports for this category |
| Description: | The two main objectives of the Blythe House Programme are to ensure that: 1) Blythe House is put to its most efficient and effective use in order to deliver maximum value for money 2) The Blythe House museums are able to care for their collections in the most efficient and effective way |
| DCA (RAG) | Amber |
| DCA text: | Compared to financial year 21/22-Q4, the Senior Responsible Owner's DCA rating at 22/23-Q4 remained at Amber. This is primarily due to the following factors. This is primarily due to the impact of COVID-19 and the delay in the V&A's Practical Completion of the V&A East Storehouse. The V&A's facility is expected to be completed by the end of May 2023 and the decant schedule has been reprofiled to meet agreed deadlines. Both facilities for the British Museum and the Science Museum Group have been completed and the decant of all three museums' collections is well underway. DCMS remains confident that the programmes aims of protecting the museum collections and maximising the sale value of Blythe House will still be met. |
| Start date | 2015-04-01 |
| End date | 2024-06-28 |
| Schedule text | Compared to financial year 21/22-Q4, the project's end-date at 22/23-Q4 increased from 2023-03-31 to 2024-06-28. This is primarily due to the following factors. The change in end date to 28/6/24 is due to the delay in the V&A vacating Blythe House. |
| Baseline | £30.66m |
| Forecast | £37.73m |
| Variance | 23.00% |
| Variance text: | The budget variance exceeds 5%. The in-year variance reflects the management of grant in aid drawdown from year to year. The in-year forecast spend represents anticipated expenditure on the Blythe House project, while the baseline represents what is being drawn down in grant in aid funding. There is an arrangement whereby the museums can draw down the grant in aid funding for non-Blythe House project expenditure, and 'repay' it to the project in future years. |
| Whole Life Cost | £240.00m |
| WLCost text: | Compared to financial year 21/22-Q4, the project's departmental-agree Whole Life Cost at 22/23-Q4 increased from 217m. to 240m. This is primarily due to the following factors. Additional funding was secured at the 2020 and 2021 Spending Reviews due to the significant impacts on the programme caused by the Covid pandemic. The grant-based sponsorship model used for delivery of the programme retained with no central contingency, consequently. This uplift reflects the wider approach to supporting museums during the pandemic |
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| Sourcefile | IPA_2023.csv |
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