AQW 51927/11-16

Ms Claire Sugden
Independent
East Londonderry

Tabled Date: 04/12/2015
Answered On Date: 18/12/2015
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the administrative costs of the youth service during 2014-2015 broken down by (a) the Education and Library Boards; and (b) the Youth Council for Northern Ireland.

Answer:

The 2014-15 administrative costs of the youth service for (a) the Education and Library Boards and (b) the Youth Council for Northern Ireland are listed in the table below:

	Youth Administrative Costs
Organisation	£’000
Education and Library Boards 1	2,909
Youth Council for Northern Ireland (YCNI)	336
Total	3,245

1.The 2014-15 Resource Accounts for the ELBs are yet to be finalised and as such may be subject to change.

Administrative costs have been defined, in accordance with Treasury’s Consolidated Budgeting Guidance, as, ‘expenditure on running Central Government entities but excluding their frontline activities’. Therefore the above figures exclude any costs directly attributable to delivering frontline services.

YCNI have stated that of the £682k staffing costs associated with the Council £188k falls under the Treasury definition of Administration.