Question to the Northern Ireland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much and what proportion of her Department's budget was spent on activities which were contracted out in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13 and (e) 2013-14; and how much and what proportion of her Department's budget she expects to be contracted out in 2014-15.
My Department does not hold specific accounting information on activities which were contracted out, and to determine this information would incur disproportionate cost.