6.2 Multiannual growth in financial resources 6.2.1 Budgetary assessment for the 2015-2017 three-year period 2015 Appropriations in €m Appropriations voted in the initial Finance Act Appropriations open Appropriations used Utilisation rate of appropriations open Staff appropriations 2016 Operating appropriations CAs PAs 3.769 0.995 1.075 3.750 2.567 3.625 90% Staff appropriations 2017 Operating appropriations CAs PAs 4.110 0.977 1.141 1.044 4.089 0.946 2.310 1.033 3.876 90% 99% 95% Staff appropriations Operating appropriations CAs PAs 4.089 1.024 1.104 1.020 4.065 0.899 0.972 0.642 1.053 3.915 0.622 0.972 68% 103% 96% 69% 100% Trends in jobs and wage bill over the three-year period The Act of 26 May 2014 amending the Act of 30 October 2007 establishing a Contrôleur général des lieux de privation de liberté has particularly authorised inspection of the enforcement in practice of procedures for removing foreign nationals up until their handing-over to the State of destination and established a right to an on-site visit of the people deprived of liberty who referred a case to the institution. The Contrôleur général des lieux de privation de liberté has therefore seen an extension in its areas of competence which justified a certain increase in its staff over the 2015 financial year, completed in 2016, as well as an extension of its premises so as to accommodate additional workstations and lay out suitable meeting rooms. In terms of staff expenses and jobs, the institution benefited from five new jobs created by the 2015 and 2016 Finance Acts on account of the new areas of competence bestowed by the Act of 26 May 2014. The institution's employment ceiling has been increased as a result of these measures from 28 FTEs in 2014 to 33 in 2016. The Table above shows an increase in wage bill allocated to the institution between 2015 and 2016 for the full-year cover of the five newly created jobs in 2015. In 2017, the CGLPL saw a slight drop in appropriations corresponding to its participation in the effort to streamline public spending required for Programme 308. Not all the appropriations allocated annually are used up, largely due to the (sometimes lengthy) frictional vacancy for recruitment of officials on secondment. It is worth noting increased consumption of the budget for remuneration of external staff (stable consumption at 300,000 euros in 2016 and 2017, 34% higher than the 2015 budget), largely due to the increase in numbers of external inspectors (with stepped-up recruitment of professionals from the hospital and psychiatric sectors) and better remuneration for their participation in the institution’s work (including training and participation in thematic reports). 139