More than £4m of public money was prevented from being wrongly paid out in Northern Ireland following a “data matching” exercise, according to a report from the Northern Ireland Audit Office.
Northern Ireland’s Department of Health is facing questions over its accounting treatment of millions of pounds that might otherwise have been redistributed to other departments.
More than £900m spent on reducing the gap in GCSE results between disadvantaged and affluent children in Northern Ireland “has not made any demonstrable difference”, a damning report has found.
