Six projects have been awarded the first tranche of transformation funding from the UK government to the Northern Irish Executive in the hope that they will reform public services.
The additional funding that came alongside Stormont’s return might not be enough to deliver financial stability in Northern Ireland, the nation’s fiscal watchdog has warned.
Proposals to recall Stormont include devolving corporation tax and providing £3bn of funding to put public services on a sustainable footing, the government has confirmed.
Northern Ireland’s most senior finance civil servant has stepped in to set spending limits for the executive’s departments for the next few months in the absence of an agreed budget.
Most aspects of Northern Ireland’s draft budget show no evidence of strategic priority setting, the chair of the NI Fiscal Council has said on the publication of the organisation’s first annual...
