Report on the Review of 2010-11 Spending Plans for Northern Ireland Departments

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This report is a co-ordinated response on behalf of the Assembly's statutory committees to the Review of 2010-11Spending Plans for Northern Ireland Departments. The Budget 2008-11 set the allocations for Northern Ireland departments for a three-year period, with an intention that emerging pressures would be addressed as far as possiblethrough the quarterly in-year monitoring round process. The Committee has identified a number of key findings and recommendations from the evidence and would ask that these, together with the issues raised by the other statutorycommittees, are taken into consideration by the Executive in finalising the revised Budget for 2010-1. A particular criticism of this "mini-budget" process has been the lack of detailed information to enable substantive input from the Assembly and the wider public on the proposed reprioritisation of spending allocations between departments. This report therefore aims to identify measures which can help to improve engagement on budgetary issues going forward.

Genre: Political Science / General (fancy, right?)