The Efficient and Effective Provision of Community Library Services – Costing

This document presents the detailed costing that underpins the spending review summarised below.

The main observation of the performance expenditure review is that expenditure on computer services and equipment hire has increased at a high rate:from 9 percent of total programme expenditure in 2015/16 to 20 percent by end of 2017/18.This exponential increase was occurred while the number of libraries served has remained unchanged which suggests that there are gross inefficiencies. Expenditure on equipment hire has also risen from 2 percent of total expenditure in 2015/16 to 9 percent by end of 2017/18.