The figure is based on there being no public service pay rises, says a Department of Finance official.
Stormont is on course for an overspend of £450m this year, the senior official in the Department of Finance has warned.Pay awards matching those in the rest of the UK would see the deficit balloon to around £1bn.Neil Gibson, the permanent secretary at the Department of Finance, said that savings of £980m have been made this year.
Earlier this year the head of Northern Ireland's civil service said Stormont officials were at the limit of what they could legally cut in the absence of ministers.Northern Ireland politicians have been lobbying the government to ask for a change to the funding system which would see a greater 'needs based' focus.'We walked into a wasteland' - BBC in Gaza with Israeli forces. VideoHe had a call from Israeli intelligence. 'We have the order to bomb.
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