Leaving aside the derisory offer of £16,666 to each of the nations to support their youth engagement with the UK Youth Parliament, it needs to be considered that there are 149 UK Youth Parliament constituencies in England, supporting a total of 411 MYPs.
To put this in context an MP’s basic salary is £81,932 without expenses, a sum which under the DCMS’s current costings would fund 66 local authority constituencies engagement with the UKYP.
In 2004, the then Labour government appointed the Office of Public Management (OPM) to undertake a review of the running of the UKYP and make recommendations to continue its growth and success.
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