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30 September 2009

PRESS RELEASE

AC 01/09/10

NORTHERN IRELAND ASSEMBLY PUBLISHES MLA OFFICE COST ALLOWANCES AND EXPENSES

The Northern Ireland Assembly today publishes MLA Office Cost Allowances and expenses for the year 2008-09 and the first quarter of 2009-10. For the first time, the figures provide details on individual claims by MLAs.

The Office Cost Allowance provides funding to MLAs to undertake Assembly and constituency work and includes the cost of running a constituency office and employing staff.

Speaker of the Assembly, William Hay MLA said: “The Assembly Commission agreed in June that, from the end of September 2009, it would be placing more information about MLAs’ expenses into the public domain. We understand that people want to know how public money is being spent and to reassure themselves that it is being used effectively and efficiently.

“Improving transparency does not stop here: we are in the process of making all expenses and Office Cost Allowances, from 2003, available on the Northern Ireland Assembly website from the end of November 2009.”

ENDS

Notes to Editors

Information about individual MLAs can be found on the Northern Ireland Assembly website, archive.niassembly.gov.uk.

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