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That's how much better off we are each year than folks anywhere else in the UK, when it comes to public expenditure. So says the which reckons we are 22% better off than the national average when it comes to getting money out of the Treasury. That puts us at the top of the table, when compared to England, Scotland and Wales and isn't the kind of research Stormont ministers want to be clutching when they go in to bat with the Treasury about the need for more cash to cover policing and justice, the civil service pay claim and other pressure points.
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