Notes to the Financial Statements 19-34

Note 19 Debtors Note 20 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year Note 21 Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year Note 22 Deferred capital grant Note 23 Recycled capital grant fund

Note 24 Community benefit fund Note 25 Disposal proceeds fund Note 26 Loans and borrowings Note 27 Pensions Note 28 Non-equity share capital

Note 29 Cash flow from operating activities

Note 30 Capital commitments

Note 31 Operating leases

Note 32 Contingent assets/liabilities

Note 33 Related parties

Note 34 Post balance sheet events

19 Debtors

Social housing rental arrears were 2.56% at the end of the year (2020: 2.29%).

20 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

21 Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year

22 Deferred capital grant

23 Recycled capital grant fund

24 Community benefit fund

In 2003, settle was the recipient of a Large Scale Voluntary Transfer (LSVT) of housing properties from North Hertfordshire County Council. In exchange for receiving so many homes at significant discount, settle agreed to restrict income from any subsequent sales to a predefined low value until 2030. The remaining proceeds from each sale are recognised here as a creditor, repayable on demand.

The signed agreement states that these funds can only be spent on developing new social housing or associated community facilities within the local area.

25 Disposal proceeds fund

26 Loans and borrowings

Debt analysis

During 2020/21 an additional £75m private placement was agreed, to be drawn in three tranches of £20m, £30m and £25m. As at March 2021 £55m of this remains undrawn and is not included in the above table. This will become repayable once it has been drawn down in 2021/22 and 2022/23.

Security

All borrowing is secured by fixed charges on individual properties.

Terms of repayment and interest rates

At 31 March 2021 the Group had undrawn loan facilities of £95m (2020: £47m).

Based on the lender’s earliest repayment date, borrowings are repayable as follows:

27 Pensions

Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)

The LGPS is a multi-employer scheme, administered by Hertfordshire County Council under the regulations governing the LGPS, a defined benefit scheme. The most recent formal actuarial valuation was completed as at 31 March 2020 by a qualified independent actuary.

The LGPS is closed to employees who join the Group after 31 March 2003. The liability in respect of past service for transferring members as at 31 March 2003 is to remain with NHDC. The market value of the scheme's assets as at 31 March 2003, and any deficit or surplus relating to revaluation of these assets, are reflected in the financial statements of NHDC.

The employer's contributions to the LGPS by the Group for the year ended 31 March 2021 were £173k (2020: £173k) at a contribution rate of 21.2% of pensionable salaries.

During the period between pension valuation and publication of these financial statements, new guidelines were issued for pension liability recognition, following a December 2018 tribunal appeal which overturned a previous ruling relating to age-related entitlements. The impact of the case has now been implicitly built into the new actuarial valuation of the fund for the three-year period starting 1st April 2020.

Principal actuarial assumptions: Financial assumptions

Mortality assumptions

The post-retirement mortality assumptions adopted to value the benefit obligation at March 2021 and March 2020 are based on the CMI 2020 and CMI 2018 models, respectively, using standard smoothing and assuming current rates of improvement will converge to a long-term rate of 1.5% and 1.25% per annum, respectively.

The assumed life expectations on retirement at age 65 are:

Amounts recognised in surplus or deficit

Reconciliation of opening and closing balances of the present value scheme liabilities:

Reconciliation of opening and closing balances of the fair value of plan assets:

While the calculations above would leave settle in a surplus position of £803k (2020: £1.4m), LGPS cannot demonstrate that the Association could take advantage of the asset position in reduced payments or take ownership upon death of the final living scheme member. As a direct result, settle cannot recognise the surplus as LGPS does not form a debtor to the Association. The pensions liability is therefore capped at nil, leaving a total movement in reserves of 76k, comprised of the recognisable portion of the remeasurements.

Major categories of plan assets as a percentage of total plan assets:

28 Non-equity share capital

The shares provide the members with the right to vote at general meetings, but do not provide any rights to dividends or distributions on a winding up.

29 Cash flow from operating activities

30 Capital commitments

The above commitments will be financed primarily through operating cashflows, borrowings and any Social Housing Grant obtained in the year.

31 Operating leases

The Group has not entered any operating leases (2020: none).

32 Contingent assets/liabilities

There are no contingent assets or liabilities as at March 2021.

33 Related parties

Related party disclosures

The ultimate controlling party of the group is settle group – Registered social housing provider. There is no ultimate controlling party of settle group.

Subsidiary and associated companies

Settle has no regulated subsidiary or associated undertakings. The following transactions that took place between the group and its non-regulated associated companies during the year were:

Development costs are allocated on actual amount incurred on accrual basis.

Intercompany balances at the end of the year were as follows:

The intercompany balance due from the subsidiary undertaking is repayable on demand.

During the year no compensation (2020: nil) was paid to key management personnel for loss of office.

One of the current Board members is a Key Management Personnel of HACT, a charity that supplied goods and services totalling £26,175 (2020: £10,200) to settle group during the year.

34 Post balance sheet events

There are no post balance sheet events.

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