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20 May 22
The Northern Irish government could be given responsibility for setting and collecting income tax by 2027, matching agreements in Scotland and Wales, if there is political will to do so, a report has...
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14 Jan 22
The agency administering housing benefit on behalf of the Northern Irish government has had its 2020-21 accounts qualified over “material levels” of fraud and error, according to the...
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6 May 21
The recently announced budget watchdog created to assess Northern Ireland’s public finances will not have “legally binding teeth” to prevent scandals such as that surrounding the green energy scheme.
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12 Apr 21
Northern Irish officials are seeking to recover £4.38m from businesses that wrongly received Covid-19 grants.
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13 Mar 20
Cost controls at the Renewable Heating Incentive, which led to the collapse of the Stormont government in 2017, fell by the wayside, according to the inquiry into the scheme.
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17 Jan 20
The UK government’s funding package for Northern Ireland will leave the country in an “austerity trap”, its finance minister has claimed.
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14 Jan 20
The Northern Ireland executive has been restored after three years of stalemate between the DUP and Sinn Féin.
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5 Apr 19
A milestone has been reached in the creation of Northern Ireland’s first ‘City Deal’ which will result in investment of up to £1bn centred on Belfast.
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28 Sep 18
The Northern Ireland secretary is pushing on with plans to cut assembly members’ salaries by more than a quarter from next month.
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6 Sep 18
Northern Ireland Assembly members’ pay will be cut until the country’s executive is restored, the secretary of state for Northern Ireland has announced today.
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18 Jul 18
Northern Ireland secretary Karen Bradley has said she will legislate to fill vital public appointments in the continued absence of a functioning executive at Stormont.
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9 Mar 18
Westminster has set Northern Ireland’s budget, as the country is still without its own administration.
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21 Feb 18
The UK government has suggested it will begin preparing a 2018-19 budget for Northern Ireland in a bid to provide “certainty and clarity”.
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29 Jan 18
Northern Ireland faces a budget “D-day” in early February after which making key spending decisions will be “incredibly difficult” because of the lack of an executive at Stormont, MPs have been told.
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23 Jan 18
Public sector employment in Northern Ireland was up by 0.3% over the year to March 2017, though fell by 0.1% between the second and third quarters.
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5 Dec 17
Strong governance gave Belfast City Council both agility and assurance in a project to bring in high-speed broadband. Emily Twinch reports.
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1 Dec 17
Public service reform in Northern Ireland is “imperative” and needs to be a top priority if services are to be made more sustainable and effective, CIPFA has said.
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15 Nov 17
Westminster's imposed budget on Northern Ireland will see overall spending go up 3.2% and health spending rise by 5.4%, James Brokenshire has announced.
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2 Nov 17
Northern Ireland’s budget could be set in Westminster to stop public services running out of money as the deadlock between the DUP and Sinn Fein continues.
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9 Oct 17
Northern Ireland’s civil service is leading the way in innovative public sector IT, the CIPFA Northern Ireland annual conference heard.
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5 Sep 17
The pressure on public services in Northern Ireland caused by the deadlock in forming a new executive is making direct rule from Westminster increasingly likely, the Northern Ireland secretary...
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12 Jun 17
The Conservatives are in talks with the Democratic Unionist Party to secure its support at Westminster. What does the party believe in, what concessions might it seek from the government and where...
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28 Mar 17
As talks to restore the power-sharing government in Northern Ireland break down it has been announced that budget setting powers will be taken on by the civil service.
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24 Jan 17
Sinn Féin have appointed Michelle O’Neill to lead the party in Northern Ireland, filling the gap left by Martin McGuinness who stepped down a fortnight ago.
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9 Jan 17
Fresh elections to the Northern Ireland Executive are expected in the coming weeks after Martin McGuinness resigned as deputy first minister in protest at the botched administration of a green energy...
20 May 22The Northern Irish government could be given responsibility for setting and collecting income tax by 2027, matching agreements in Scotland and Wales, if there is political will to do so, a report has...
13 Mar 20Cost controls at the Renewable Heating Incentive, which led to the collapse of the Stormont government in 2017, fell by the wayside, according to the inquiry into the scheme.
14 Jan 20The Northern Ireland executive has been restored after three years of stalemate between the DUP and Sinn Féin.
5 Apr 19A milestone has been reached in the creation of Northern Ireland’s first ‘City Deal’ which will result in investment of up to £1bn centred on Belfast.
28 Sep 18The Northern Ireland secretary is pushing on with plans to cut assembly members’ salaries by more than a quarter from next month.
2 Nov 17Northern Ireland’s budget could be set in Westminster to stop public services running out of money as the deadlock between the DUP and Sinn Fein continues.
9 Oct 17Northern Ireland’s civil service is leading the way in innovative public sector IT, the CIPFA Northern Ireland annual conference heard.
12 Jun 17The Conservatives are in talks with the Democratic Unionist Party to secure its support at Westminster. What does the party believe in, what concessions might it seek from the government and where...
9 Jan 17Fresh elections to the Northern Ireland Executive are expected in the coming weeks after Martin McGuinness resigned as deputy first minister in protest at the botched administration of a green energy...
