AQW 12386/22-27


Ms Connie Egan
Alliance Party
North Down


Tabled Date: 22/05/2024
Answered On Date: 14/06/2024
Priority Written: No


Question:
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister for a breakdown of funding provided to the (i) NI Bureau in Washington; (ii) NI Bureau in China; and (iii) Office of the Northern Ireland Executive in Brussels, in the last five years.


Answer:
The table below sets out the resource funding provided to the three overseas offices in the last five years.
 
Office of the NI Executive Brussels
Northern Ireland Bureau Washington
Northern Ireland Bureau China
 
 
 
 
2023-24
760,480.37
1,090,146.87
239,009.87
(subject to audit)
 
 
 
2022-23
832,438.70
1,183,612.92
378,204.24
 
 
 
 
2021-22
923,248.66
1,148,250.01
397,155.31
 
 
 
 
2020-21
841,142.62
1,061,991.24
373,542.72
 
 
 
 
2019-20
847,801.14
1,362,555.26
437,650.03
 
 
 
 
The figures exclude depreciation.
The funding for Brussels in 2021/22 and 2022/23 includes ring fenced funding for the NI Protocol of £80k and £147k respectively allocated to the EULITS project.
The introduction of IFRS 16 in 2022/23 impacted the accounting treatment of leases such that rental payments are no longer reflected as resource departmental expenditure limits spend and are therefore excluded from the figures:
Washington c£260k;
Brussels c£205k;
Beijing c£60k.