Sections · PESA departmental group
Northern Ireland Executive
The Northern Ireland Executive's departments and bodies, including health and social care in Northern Ireland. In 2025-26 the bodies in this section spent £30.5bn on services. £10.6bn of it (34.8%) can be followed to who received it, and at most 34.8% counting payees who are named but can't be identified yet.
- Reached an identified organisation
- Reached a recipient the publisher did not name
- Reached people, counted by benefit
- Reached staff (pay) or holders of government debt (interest), followed as one published total
- Named payee, not yet identified (may be another public body)
- Not followed
How far it is followed, and why the rest can't be
- Not published
No Northern Ireland department publishes routine spending over £25,000, and no current list of Northern Ireland's arm's-length bodies has been found.
- Below the publication threshold
Payments under £25,000 (central government and the NHS) or £500 (councils) are not published one by one. Some publishers list every payment anyway; most do not.
- Pay: followed to staff as one total£10.6bnmeasured
Wages are never published person by person, and must not be. The staff costs of the 1 bodies in this section, from HM Treasury's OSCAR database (2025-26, provisional outturn), are counted as followed to their staff.
Where the records come from
Each publisher's 2025-26 payment records, and where their money went. "Identified" means matched to a registered company, charity or other organisation outside government; "named only", a payee named in the record but not yet matched; "passed on", paid to another public body.
No payment records from this section are held for 2025-26.
What PESA says this section spends on
| Function | 2025-26 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Social protection | £12.7bn | 42% |
| Health | £7.4bn | 24% |
| Education | £4.6bn | 15% |
| Economic affairs | £2.3bn | 7% |
| Public order and safety | £1.7bn | 6% |
| Housing and community amenities | £974m | 3% |
| General public services | £563m | 2% |
| Recreation, culture and religion | £207m | 1% |
| Environment protection | £86m | 0% |