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A word cloud for Explanatory and Financial Memoranda

How good are Northern Ireland’s Explanatory and Financial Memoranda?

by Colin.Pidgeon
17th November 201631st March 2024

In the 2011-16 Assembly Mandate, MLAs debated, scrutinised and passed a range of legislation across a number of policy areas – from Mental Capacity to Licensing of Pavement Cafes, from Tobacco Retail to Rural Needs. When a Bill is introduced in the Assembly, it is accompanied by an Explanatory and Financial Memorandum (EFM). The EFM is essentially a guide to understanding the policy intentions and the cost of a proposed measure. But how useful are these EFMs?

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A line graph which shows that the level of fiscal transfer to NI has been fairly even over the last five years.

How much of what we spend on public services in Northern Ireland is paid for by locally raised tax revenue?

by Colin.Pidgeon
8th August 201631st March 2024

Northern Ireland (NI) receives a sizeable fiscal transfer from the United Kingdom (UK) Government. In other words, considerably more is spent on public services than is raised in revenue. NI therefore relies on taxpayers elsewhere in the UK. Fiscal transfers from national government to sub-national regions are commonplace; they are intended to help redress variances in local economic performance.

The figure shows that DAERA, the Department of the Economy, the Department of Finance and the Executive Office all received cuts for 2017-17 from their baseline. The Departments of Communities, Health, and Justice all received increase from their baselines.

Unpicking the Executive’s Budget 2016-17

by Colin.Pidgeon
4th May 201631st March 2024

How were resources allocated to the nine Executive departments, and how much did they get?

On 13^th January 2016 the Minister of Finance and Personnel published the Executive’s single year Budget 2016-17, bearing in mind the new nine-department structure which is now effective following the Assembly’s May 2016 elections. The Budget is to provide the incoming Ministers forming the new Executive with a ‘…stable, balanced platform to determine priorities and funding allocations post May elections for a multi-year Budget from 2017-18 to 2019-20’.

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Unpicking the Executive’s Budget 2016-17

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