Alderney report indicates how much Guernsey pays to run it
EXCERPTS from a report in Alderney's January Billet d'Etat give an insight into its financial relationship with Guernsey.
The full report will be published and debated by Guernsey's States at the February meeting.
The approximate gross average cost of running Alderney over the past three years is said to be £17.5m.
This figure includes £11.9m of transferred services from Guernsey, such as health, education, welfare, and police and Border Agency.
The yearly net cost of funding public services on Alderney, when taxes, property charges and other income streams are taken into account, is between £5m. and £7m.
The figures come amid a review of the financial relationship between the two islands - the first for about 25 years.
Alderney Finance Committee chairman Robert McDowall compiled them using financial information provided by the relevant States departments in Guernsey which he said might vary in integrity.
'It is a complex exercise and it would be very easy to focus on headline figures,' he said.
'I wanted to put it in the public domain so people could understand the context by the time it gets debated in Guernsey.'
Mr McDowall said some of the points could be contentious.
He had not included the cost of maintaining Alderney's breakwater as the States of Guernsey had agreed to take responsibility for this from the Ministry of Defence in the 1980s.
