Citizens' Advice Bureaux
(asked on 23rd March 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the effect of changes in the level of Government funding for the Citizens Advice Service in (a) England, (b) West Yorkshire and (c) Kirklees in the last three years.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy provides funding to Citizen Advice (CitA), the umbrella body for the Citizen Advice Service in England and Wales through an annual grant to support their core function and to deliver consumer advocacy and advice. Funding over the last three years is set out in the table below.
Year | BIS Core Funding | Consumer advice, information & advocacy | Total Funding |
2016-17 | £18,900,000 | £19,974,300 | £38,874,300 |
2015-16 | £18,900,000 | £19,313,300 | £38,213,300 |
2014-15 | £18,900,000 | £18,940,300 | £37,840,300 |
Central Government does not provide funding directly to local individual Citizen Advice offices, core funding for which is usually provided by the local authority in which they are located.