Financial Assistance to Political Parties

The total amount of Assembly funds which each of the Parties/Assembly Groups have been given, or are due to be given, over each of the last 5 years and this current financial year

These amounts are given as a statutory requirement paid under the provisions of the Financial Assistance to Political Parties (FAPP)Scheme 2010. The Party Allowance for 2013/2014 projected/maximum is based on the membership of the Parties remaining static. Any changes will affect the allowance paid. Payment is made on actual spend, it is not an automatic allowance.

Year	Party	Party	Whips	Total
13-14	DUP	£75,518.83	£14,238.24	£89,757.07
current	SF	£48,814.63	£19,953.24	£68,767.87
	UUP	£44,434.02	£11,133.76	£55,567.78
	SDLP	£13,944.70	£3,284.18	£17,228.88
	Alliance	£34,815.90	£8,477.68	£43,293.58
	TUV	£14,200.24	£0.00	£14,200.24
	Green	£14,487.78	£0.00	£14,487.78
	UKIP	£10,816.10	£0.00	£10,816.10
	NI21	£12,439.99	£0.00	£12,439.99
	Total	£269,472.19	£57,087.10	£326,559.29


Year	Party	Party	Whips	Total
13-14	DUP	£158,300.00	£50,600.00	£208,900.00
Maximum	SF	£131,900.00	£46,200.00	£178,100.00
	UUP	£92,300.00	£31,300.00	£123,600.00
	SDLP	£95,600.00	£31,850.00	£127,450.00
	Alliance	£72,500.00	£19,800.00	£92,300.00
	TUV	£29,700.00	£0.00	£29,700.00
	Green	£29,700.00	£0.00	£29,700.00
	UKIP	£29,700.00	£0.00	£29,700.00
	NI21	£47,934.17	£0.00	£47,934.17
	Total	£687,634.17	£179,750.00	£867,384.17


Year	Party	Party	Whips	Total
12—13	DUP	£158,052.12	£50,491.56	£208,543.68
	SF	£131,717.16	£46,000.00	£177,717.16
	UUP	£98,063.15	£32,259.04	£130,322.19
	SDLP	£95,494.92	£31,831.68	£127,326.60
	Alliance	£72,443.81	£19,712.98	£92,156.79
	TUV	£27,315.56	£0.00	£27,315.56
	Green	£29,540.46	£0.00	£29,540.46
	UKIP	£6,414.43	£0.00	£6,414.43
	Total	£619,041.61	£180,295.26	£799,336.87

Year	Party	Party	Whips	Total
11—12	DUP	£157,317.07	£50,367.63	£207,684.70
	SF	£130,964.85	£45,550.00	£176,514.85
	UUP	£101,142.47	£32,771.97	£133,914.44
	SDLP	£96,238.48	£31,955.60	£128,194.08
	Alliance	£72,404.22	£19,711.06	£92,115.28
	TUV	£22,893.72	£0.00	£22,893.72
	Ind Health	£2,487.33	£0.00	£2,487.33
	Green	£26,374.52	£0.00	£26,374.52
	Total	£609,822.66	£180,356.26	£790,178.92

Year	Party	Party	Whips
10—11	DUP	£151,474.80	£49,393.92	£200,868.72
	SF	£124,650.00	£45,000.00	£169,650.00
	UUP	£101,251.53	£32,790.84	£134,042.37
	SDLP	£102,080.76	£32,929.26	£135,010.02
	Alliance	£72,148.42	£11,457.68	£83,606.10
	PUP	£5,101.80	£0.00	£5,101.80
	Ind Health	£29,636.40	£0.00	£29,636.40
	Green	£28,723.05	£0.00	£28,723.05
	Total	£615,066.76	£171,571.70	£786,638.46


Year	Party	Party	Whips
9—10	DUP	£142,998.03	£46,890.00	£189,888.03
	SF	£118,617.87	£42,700.00	£161,317.87
	UUP	£100,027.32	£31,780.84	£131,808.16
	SDLP	£96,906.00	£31,260.00	£128,166.00
	Alliance	£71,898.00	£19,277.00	£91,175.00
	PUP	£28,134.00	£0.00	£28,134.00
	Ind Health	£28,124.97	£0.00	£28,124.97
	Green	£25,212.84	£0.00	£25,212.84
	Total	£611,919.03	£171,907.84	£783,826.87

Year	Party	Party	Whips
08—09	DUP	£143,796.00	£46,890.00	£190,686.00
	SF	£118,780.00	£42,720.00	£161,500.00
	UUP	£100,027.78	£31,774.27	£131,802.05
	SDLP	£96,906.00	£31,260.00	£128,166.00
	Alliance	£71,897.90	£19,277.00	£91,174.90
	PUP	£28,134.00	£0.00	£28,134.00
	Ind Health	£28,134.00	£0.00	£28,134.00
	Green	£28,134.00	£0.00	£28,134.00
	Total	£615,809.68	£171,921.27	£787,730.95

The purpose of funding is as follows:

Political Parties: provides financial assistance for a party for the purpose of assisting Members of the Assembly to perform their Assembly duties.

The numbers of staff employed in each Assembly directorate/office over each of the last five years and this current financial year broken down by down by grade

Please see table below

The salary band for each grade for each of the last 5 years and this current financial year

Please see table below

Please Note: Staff figures for each year are reported in the Assembly’s Resource Accounts. Copies of the Accounts for each year are held on the Assembly’s website at http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/ABOUT-THE-ASSEMBLY/Corporate-Information/Publications/Resource-Accounts/

Staff numbers are based on the average number of staff employed over the course of the financial year. Only those staff that were engaged by the Assembly Commission are reported below. As noted in the Resource Accounts, the Commission also used the services of staff on an “Agency” basis in each of the years.

For the 2008/09 financial year the figures are held only by grade.

Table 1 – Staff Numbers and Salary Scales for 2008/09
Assembly Grade	Average Number of Staff	Salary Band
AG1	1	£100,000 - £160,000
AG2	5	£64,820 - £80,111
AG3	4	£43,600 – 62,407
AG4	39	£37,322 - £50,796
AG5	21	£28,153 - £38,893
AG6	56	£22,621 - £30,520
AG7	17	£19,592 - £26,086
AG8	85	£16,683 - £22,718
AG9	50	£14,060 - £20,109
Total	278

Table 2 – Staff Numbers and Salary Scales for 2009/10
Average Number of Staff
Assembly Grade	Clerking & Reporting	Engagement	Facilities	Resources	Director General’s Office	Salary Band
AG1	0	0	0	0	1	£100,000 - £160,000
AG2	1	1	1	1	2	£64,820 - £80,111
AG3	3	0	0	1	2	£53,657 - £62,407
AG4	21.6	7	0	4	6.4	£41,391 - £50,796
AG5	1.9	11.5	2	6.8	1.8	£32,643 - £38,893
AG6	38.7	10.5	5.4	19	6.4	£27,764 - £30,520
AG7	18	7	1	8.4	1.6	£23,066 - £26,086
AG8	23	12.6	7.9	15.5	4.	£19,450 - £22,988
AG9	19	9	28	16	2	£15,277 – £20,799
Total	126.2	58.6	45.3	71.7	27.2
329

For the 2010/11 financial year, the figures are shown below in Table 3. It should be noted that the information in Table 3 reflects a revised eight grade staffing structure implemented from 4 May 2010.

Table 3 – Staff Numbers and Salary Scales for 2010/11
Average Number of Staff
Assembly Grade	Clerking & Reporting	Engagement	Facilities	Resources	Director General’s Office	Salary Band
AG1	0	0	0	0	1	£115,216 - £130,519
AG2	1	1	1	1	2	£72,010 - £81,992
AG3	3	1	0	2	1.3	£57,608 - £65,259
AG4	23	6	2	4	4	£46,806 - £53,056
AG5	3	27.2	1.6	4.8	0	£36,485 - £41,331
AG6	38.5	19	8	11.2	5	£29,543 - £33,446
AG7	42	25	11.5	17.7	4	£24,004 - £27,357
AG8	22	13.8	65.3	15.1	2	£17,521 - £22,180
Total	132.5	93	89.4	55.8	19.3
390

For the 2011/12 financial year, the figures are shown below in Table 4. It should be noted that the information in Table 4 reflects the new organisational structure implemented in June 2011.

Table 4 – Staff Numbers and Salary Scales for 2011/12
	Average Number of Staff
Assembly Grade	Clerking & Reporting	Information & Outreach	Facilities	Corporate Services	Legal & Governance	Director General’s Office	Salary Band
AG1	0	0	0	0	0	1	£115,216 - £130,519
AG2	1	1	1	1	1	1.2	£72,010 - £81,922
AG3	3	1	0	2	1	1.4	£57,608 - £65,259
AG4	22.3	5.2	2	3.4	3	1.4	£46,806 - £53,056
AG5	3.8	29.4	1.5	5.4	0	0.6	£36,485 - £41,331
AG6	37.5	15.8	6.5	9.6	3	2.4	£29,543 - £33,446
AG7	41.2	22.2	12.2	19	1.3	3.2	£24,004 - £27,357
AG8	21.2	13	77.4	14.7	1	1.2	£17,521 - £22,180
Total	130	87.6	100.6	55.1	10.3	12.4
396

Table 5 – Staff Numbers and Salary Scales for 2012/13
	Average Number of Staff
Assembly Grade	Clerking & Reporting	Information & Outreach	Facilities	Corporate Services	Legal & Governance	Director General’s Office	Salary Band
AG1	0	0	0	0	0	1	£116,368 - £131,824
AG2	1	1	1	1	1	1	£72,730 - £82,741
AG3	3	1	0	2	1	1	£58,184 - £65,912
AG4	21.8	5	2	3.6	3.9	0	£47,274 - £53,587
AG5	2.4	29	2	4.5	0	0	£36,850 - £41,744
AG6	37.9	16.3	6	8.8	4.2	1	£29,838 - £33,780
AG7	40.7	24.6	12	17.3	1.8	2	£24,244 - £27,631
AG8	19.1	12.6	73.3	13.2	1	1	£17,696 - £17,873
Total	125.9	89.5	96.3	50.4	12.9	7
382

For the current financial year the staff figures shown are the average of the first 6 months of the year – 1^st April 13 – 1^st September 2013.

Table 6 – Staff Numbers and Salary Scales for 1^st April 13 – 1^st September 13
	Average Number of Staff
Assembly Grade	Clerking & Reporting	Information & Outreach	Facilities	Corporate Services	Legal & Governance	Director General’s Office	Salary Band
AG1	0	0	0	0	0	1	£117,532 - £133,142
AG2	1	1	1	1	1	1	£73,457 - £83,568
AG3	3	1	0	2	1	1	£58,766 - £66,571
AG4	21.7	4.8	2	3.4	3.8	0	£47,747 - £54,123
AG5	2	29.1	2	4.5	0	0	£37,219 - £42,161
AG6	35.7	16	6	8.8	3.5	1	£30,136 - £34,118
AG7	40.5	25.6	11	16.4	1.8	2	£24,486 - £27,907
AG8	18	11.6	70.8	13	1	1	£17,873 - £22,626
Total	121.9	89.1	92.8	49.1	12.1	7
372

The total figures for each year including staff used on an Agency or temporary basis are shown in Table 7.

Table 7 - Total Staff Numbers
	Employees	Agency Staff	Total
2008/09	278	99	377
2009/10	329	62	391
2010/11	390	26	416
2011/12	396	7	403
2012/13	382	8	390
1^st Feb 13 – 1^st Sept 13	372	12	384

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