Download or read book Report on the Response to the Executive s Review of the Financial Process in Northern Ireland written by Northern Ireland. Assembly. Finance and Personnel Committee and published by . This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Executive's public revenue and expenditure process takes place in the context of the wider UK control and management framework. The current process has existed in Northern Ireland for a considerable time and is based on an outdated Westminster model. The various components of the process serve different purposes and have developed over the years in individual directions resulting in significant misalignment between Budgets, Estimates and Accounts. Therefore, while based on the same basic dataset, the figurework in Budgets, Estimates and Accounts, although reconcilable, does not meet the Assembly's expectations in relation to transparency. Assembly members have expressed frustration with trying to understand sets of financial information that are calculated on a different basis and/or different boundaries, making it difficult to track spend from plans to outturn. This also limits the ability of Committees and members to challenge departments effectively. The Executive considered it was time to take stock and review the entire financial process with the objective of agreeing a simplified and streamlined process tailormade to meet the requirements of the devolved administration. Having considered the views of key stakeholders and the available evidence this report presents the initial recommendations. It must be emphasised that these recommendations, while indicating a direction of travel, are largely an effort to focus minds on the key areas for improvement and to kindle debate on the issues and possible reforms
Download or read book Second Report on the Inquiry Into the Role of the Northern Ireland Assembly in Scrutinising the Executive s Budget and Expenditure written by Northern Ireland. Assembly. Finance and Personnel Committee and published by . This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Committee for Finance and Personnel commenced its Inquiry into the Role of the Northern Ireland Assembly in Scrutinising the Executive's Budget and Expenditure in July 2008. Intended to be conducted in stages, The aim of the inquiry is to maximise the Assembly's contribution To The Northern Ireland budget process and enhance the role of Assembly statutory committees and Members in budget and financial scrutiny. The first report of the inquiry, published in October 2008, formed the Committee's submission To The Department of Finance and Personnel's Review of the Northern Ireland Executive Budget 2008-11 Process, which reported in May 2010. This second report of the inquiry is the Committee's response To The recommendations arising from the Department's review. The Committee considers that a number of the principles arising from both the Department's review And The Committee's inquiry could form the basis for modelling the future budget processes in terms of engagement, openness and transparency.
Download or read book Report on the Inquiry Into the Scrutiny of the Northern Ireland Executive s Budget and Expenditure written by Northern Ireland. Assembly. Finance and Personnel Committee and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Report on the Committee s Response to the 2007 Executive Review of the Domestic Rating System written by Northern Ireland. Assembly. Finance and Personnel Committee and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report on the Committees Response to the 2007 Executive Review of the Domestic Rating System : Together with the Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee Relating to the Report, Written Submissions, Memoranda and the Minutes of Evidence
Download or read book Active Citizenship and Disability written by Andrew Power and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an international comparative study of the implementation of disability rights law and policy focused on the emerging principles of self-determination and personalisation. It explores how these principles have been enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and how different jurisdictions have implemented them to enable meaningful engagement and participation by persons with disabilities in society. The philosophy of 'active citizenship' underpinning the Convention - that all citizens should (be able to) actively participate in the community - provides the core focal point of this book, which grounds its analysis in exploring how this goal has been imagined and implemented across a range of countries. The case studies examine how different jurisdictions have reformed disability law and policy and reconfigured how support is administered and funded to ensure maximum choice and independence is accorded to people with disabilities.
Download or read book Report of the Committee for Finance and Personnel s Response to the Review of Rating Policy Consultation Paper written by Northern Ireland. Assembly. Finance and Personnel Committee and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Report on the Review of Financial Management in the Further Education Sector in Northern Ireland and Governance Examination of Fermanagh FE College written by Northern Ireland. Assembly. Public Accounts Committee and published by . This book was released on 2009-07-02 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NIAO report on this topic published as NIA 98/08-09, session 2008-09 (ISBN 9780337091773)
Download or read book Response of the Northern Ireland Executive to the Fourth and Fifth Reports of Session 1999 2000 written by Great Britain. Parliament House of Commons. Northern Ireland Affairs Committee and published by . This book was released on 2001-05-15 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Department of Finance and Personnel Memorandum on the Twelfth Report from the Public Accounts Committee Mandate 2011 2015 written by Northern Ireland. Department of Finance and Personnel and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on the Executive s Draft Budget 2011 15 written by Northern Ireland. Assembly. Finance and Personnel Committee and published by . This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Northern Ireland Executive's draft Budget 2011-15 is distinctive in that it establishes the spending plans for government departments for the next four years, within a wider fiscal and economic context which is unparalleled in recent years. The Executive has been faced with the unenviable challenge of having to develop its budget, not only against the backdrop of an international financial crisis affecting public finances and economies across the globe, but, more particularly, On the foundation of swingeing public spending cuts arising from the UK Spending Review, announced in October 2010. The Committee has sought to establish a sound evidence base upon which to make a critical but constructive response to the draft Budget 2011-15, which will inform the Minister of Finance and Personnel and the wider Executive in preparing a final draft Budget. The Report contains some forty-five key conclusions and recommendations, In addition to numerous supplementary observations and proposals, both at a strategic and a departmental level. These include: criticisms of the budget process and presentation; concerns around particular savings and spending proposals; suggestions for improving financial management practices, transparency and the longer-term efficiency of public spending going forward; propositions on levers for supporting wider economic development; and recommendations for new measures and additional considerations to be factored into the revised draft Budget.
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Download or read book The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report written by Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, published by the U.S. Government and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in early 2011, is the official government report on the United States financial collapse and the review of major financial institutions that bankrupted and failed, or would have without help from the government. The commission and the report were implemented after Congress passed an act in 2009 to review and prevent fraudulent activity. The report details, among other things, the periods before, during, and after the crisis, what led up to it, and analyses of subprime mortgage lending, credit expansion and banking policies, the collapse of companies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the federal bailouts of Lehman and AIG. It also discusses the aftermath of the fallout and our current state. This report should be of interest to anyone concerned about the financial situation in the U.S. and around the world.THE FINANCIAL CRISIS INQUIRY COMMISSION is an independent, bi-partisan, government-appointed panel of 10 people that was created to "examine the causes, domestic and global, of the current financial and economic crisis in the United States." It was established as part of the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009. The commission consisted of private citizens with expertise in economics and finance, banking, housing, market regulation, and consumer protection. They examined and reported on "the collapse of major financial institutions that failed or would have failed if not for exceptional assistance from the government."News Dissector DANNY SCHECHTER is a journalist, blogger and filmmaker. He has been reporting on economic crises since the 1980's when he was with ABC News. His film In Debt We Trust warned of the economic meltdown in 2006. He has since written three books on the subject including Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity (Cosimo Books, 2008), and The Crime Of Our Time: Why Wall Street Is Not Too Big to Jail (Disinfo Books, 2011), a companion to his latest film Plunder The Crime Of Our Time. He can be reached online at www.newsdissector.com.
Download or read book Corporation Tax in Northern Ireland written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Northern Ireland Affairs Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The committee supports the principle of devolving to the Northern Ireland Executive the decision over whether or not to amend the rate of corporation tax, and believes this would assist the indigenous private sector to expand, innovate and employ more staff. The report uses 12.5% as a benchmark for the lower rate of corporation tax, but suggests that on the basis that the decision is devolved to the Northern Ireland executive it may, in due course, choose a lower rate. To maximise the benefits of a lower rate, though, continued progress needs to be made on other economic development policy mechanisms, including planning, education, and incentives for research and development and exporting. Low corporation tax is not a panacea for all Northern Ireland's economic ills, warns the committee, and there are considerable implementation issues: direct comparisons with the Republic of Ireland and its experience with 12.5% are difficult because the UK and Irish tax systems are different; and the UK Government would have to satisfy the criteria laid down in the Azores judgment for the tax reduction to satisfy EU rules on state aids. The committee was surprised to discover HM Treasury do not know how much corporation tax is raised in Northern Ireland. It is important that the Northern Ireland Executive has as much information as possible before deciding if, and how, it wishes to lower the rate, and at least a better idea of the amount of financial risk they are taking on. Furthermore, the benefits of lowering corporation tax must not be outweighed by the costs to businesses and HMRC.
