The NI Fiscal Council (NIFC) has produced this updated 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.
This is the second release of the databank and contains outturn data for the NI Executive Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) budgets. More explanation of the databank and how to interpret the data are contained in the 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. This release therefore enhances the transparency of our work, by allowing our stakeholders to see the data we rely on, and use them for their own purposes if they wish.
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. This second release of the databank is based on the data underlying the Treasury’s PESA 2025 publication.
The data can be spliced with our first release, and with later releases, but care needs to be taken to ensure consistency of the dataset. We intend to add a section to our user guide in the future to explain how to check for consistency between releases. Until we have, stakeholders are welcome to contact us for advice at info@nifiscalcouncil.org
You can download databank releases below: