YES - Tom Wylie, chief executive, National Youth Agency
I think it would be valuable for the Government to publish the Section 52 returns on youth and community spending. We have published data based on the budgets of principal youth officers, and it would be interesting to see if these figures differ from the returns of council treasurers.
Some Section 52 returns are likely to be higher than the actual budgets that PYOs say they have to spend, because the treasurers add on corporate re-charges or a proportion of the authority's debt charges. Perhaps some of these add-ons are justified but, in the interests of transparency, the figures should be published.
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