The first casualty of this new financial scrutiny is the UK Youth Parliament. He didn't waste any time working out the cost of electing a representative to the Youth Parliament, taking into account the annual membership charge, travelling expenses and the staff costs incurred escorting our representative to all the meetings and residentials.
And after a short debate at the youth council, members took his advice and voted not to elect a representative. Hopefully, we'll review the decision in a few months' time. But for now, at least, our seat on the UK Youth Parliament will be empty.
This has got me thinking about the implications of delivering on the government ambition in the Aiming High strategy to devolve more control over youth budgets to young people, and what might happen if we just handed over the cheque book.
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