Illegal Money Lending Teams: Finance
(asked on 24th June 2014) - View Source
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much he allocated to the Illegal Money Lending Unit in (a) Scotland, (b) England, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland in each of the last four years up to the most recent period for which figures are available.
Since 1st April 2012 the National Trading Standards Board (NTSB) has been responsible for the Illegal Money Lending Units in England and Wales, and Trading Standards Scotland (TSS) has been responsible for the Illegal Money Lending Unit in Scotland. The NTSB and TSS decide what proportion of their total grant funding (provided by BIS) should be allocated for delivery of these functions. Before April 2012 Government directly funded all three of the Illegal Money lending Teams.
Below are the budgets allocated to the Illegal Money Lending teams over the last four years.
| England | Wales | Scotland |
2014/15 | £3.60m | £0.63m | £0.4m |
2013/14 | £3.91m | £0.67m | £0.4m |
2012/13 | £4.13m | £0.59m | £0.38m |
2011/12 | £4.07m | £0.65m | £0.48m |
2010/11 | £4.07m | £0.65m | £0.48m |
Trading Standards is a devolved matter in Northern Ireland and so it is not possible to provide comparable data.