AQO 1358/17-22

Mr Andrew Muir
Alliance Party
North Down

Tabled Date: 03/12/2020
Answered On Date: 14/12/2020
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Finance to outline the impact on public spending in Northern Ireland of the year-on-year change to the core DEL budget for 2021-22 arising from the UK Spending Review.

Answer:

The Spending Review outcome for the Executive falls short of what we might have anticipated pre-COVID.

It essentially represents a stand still position in cash terms. With the additional resource DEL Barnett additions being largely offset by the loss of the additional £350 million of NDNA funding we had received in 2020-21, which while provided for one year only was used to fund recurrent pressures in departments.

There is a slight increase in conventional Capital DEL core funding of £98.3 million while the Financial Transactions Capital budget has reduced to £73.6 million

Details of departmental budget allocations will be set out as part of the draft Budget.