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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...
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18 Nov 15
Northern Ireland’s political parties have struck an agreement with the UK and Irish governments to restart devolved government in the province following 10 weeks of talks.
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8 Oct 15
CIPFA has today published the first ever balance sheet for the Northern Ireland public sector, revealing the province has £51.8bn of assets and owes £51.3bn in liabilities.
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14 Sep 15
Stormont is mired in multiple crises, to the extent that a temporary dissolution of the assembly might be the only way forward.
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9 Sep 15
The five main Northern Ireland parties have embarked on talks to resolve concerns around paramilitary activity that are threatening to bring down the province’s power-sharing executive.
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26 Aug 15
The Ulster Unionist Party has announced that it intends to pull out of Northern Ireland’s power sharing Executive after a police investigation found that the “organisational...
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13 May 15
Northern Ireland’s new finance minister has warned that public services in the province will face further cuts unless a deal is reached in the devolved executive to implement welfare reforms.
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12 Mar 15
The Barnett formula needs to be scrapped as part of moves to ensure an equitable and sustainable distribution of public funding across the UK, a CIPFA submission to the Northern Ireland Assembly has...
9 Mar 18Westminster has set Northern Ireland’s budget, as the country is still without its own administration.
21 Feb 18The UK government has suggested it will begin preparing a 2018-19 budget for Northern Ireland in a bid to provide “certainty and clarity”.
5 Dec 17Strong governance gave Belfast City Council both agility and assurance in a project to bring in high-speed broadband. Emily Twinch reports.
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...
24 Jan 17Sinn 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.
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...
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