The Efficient and Effective Provision of Community Library Services – Spending Review Report

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.