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Citizens Advice and Consumer Focus

Answer

Historic funding levels for Citizens Advice, Citizens Advice Scotland and Consumer Focus (the National Consumer Council) are set out below.

Citizens Advice (CitA)
Funding type/year (£’000)	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14
Core	21,470.0	18,943.0	18,900.0	18,968.0	18,900.0
Financial Inclusion Fund 1	18,579.0	18,776.9	17,935.9
Additional Hours Project	7,500.0	5,310.0
Consumer Service helpline	13,468.0	9,286.0
General consumer advocacy	2,312.0
General consumer education	850.0
TOTAL	47,549.0	43,029.9	36,835.9	32,436.0	31,348.0

Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS)
Funding type/year (£’000)	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14
Core	3,362.0	3,112.0	2,900.0	2,912.0	2,900.0
Additional Hours Project	590.0
Consumer Service helpline	2,373.0	1,557.0
General consumer advocacy	408.0
General consumer education	150.0
TOTAL	3,362.0	3,702.0	2,900.0	5,285.0	5,015.0

Consumer Futures (Consumer Focus prior to April 2013)
Funding type/year (£’000)	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14
Activity relating to electricity/gas regulated consumers2	5,700	5,533	5,774	5,771	5,771
Activity relating to Postal consumers 3	3,400	2,901	3,124	3,111	3,111
Activity related to general consumers 4	5,900	4,932	2,865	2,560
Activity relating to cross-cutting consumer interests 5	250
TOTAL	15,000	13,365	11,763	11,442	9,132

Direct grant funding for face to face debt advice by Central Government ended in 2011-12 with responsibility for this provision moving to the Money Advice Service.² For which costs are recoverable from energy licence holders³ For which costs are recoverable from postal licence holders⁴ Costs borne by BIS⁵ Costs borne by BIS

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

HL6096; 753 cc168-9WA

Session

2013-14

Subjects

Finance Citizens Advice Consumer Focus

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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