The NI Fiscal Council (NIFC) has produced this databank to show the main public spending numbers for Northern Ireland. These numbers show how the NI Executive chooses to spend the money it receives.
We are making the data available in this databank so everyone can have access to the same source numbers we rely on for many of our analyses.
Our first release of the databank only contains outturn data for the NI Executive Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) budgets. But we plan to expand this databank further, as explained later in the accompanying user guide.
We use these outturn DEL budgets data in our annual budget assessment, which reports on the NI Executive’s revenue streams and spending proposals.
The databank includes tables which show:
how much each department spends on spending that is controlled by budget limits. This is the outturn data for departmental budgets that is published by the Department of Finance (DoF);
how this DoF outturn spending data for departments’ budgets relates to the outturn spending data for the whole NI Executive that is published by HM Treasury within their Budget documents - which is measured on a slightly different basis; and
how the departmental spending is financed, including outturn data for the Block Grant.