Debate contribution: Police Officer Recruitment: Funding
Debate contribution by Mrs Naomi Long on .
- MLA
- Mrs Naomi Long
- Party at the time
- Alliance Party
- Date
- 24 February 2025
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Police Officer Recruitment: Funding
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4813780
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Text
It is difficult to speak specifically about how much it will cost the PSNI. I know that stabilisation pressures have increased by about £60 million due to changes in employers' National Insurance contributions, and that includes things such as the Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS) pay award assumptions and legal aid fees as recommended in the Burgess report. There has been a considerable increase in stabilisation pressures in the Department. Looking to the PSNI specifically, excluding employers' National Insurance contributions and NICS pay award pressures, the pressures that it needs to meet stand at around £17·98 million in the current year.
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