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11 Aug 14
Iain Duncan Smith will today defend the government’s welfare reforms by insisting that measures including the introduction of a £26,000 benefit cap are ensuring a ‘social recovery’ in the UK...
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10 Jul 14
Public sector workers across the UK are taking strike action today to protest pay restraint and pension changes.
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14 May 14
Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly have criticised the ‘extraordinarily high’ costs incurred by Account NI when it pays public sector suppliers
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19 Mar 14
Welsh finance minister Jane Hutt has criticised Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget, saying it was full of missed opportunities and would do nothing for economic growth in Wales.
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20 Nov 13
Local communities in England lose £4.1bn each year to the UK’s devolved nations through the ‘outdated’ Barnett Formula for distributing public spending, the Local Government Association has claimed...
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3 Oct 13
Northern Ireland will be hit harder by the government’s welfare reforms than any other part of the UK, with cuts set to take around £750m out the economy, charities have warned.
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30 Sep 13
Public services in Northern Ireland are not subject to the burning platform of fiscal meltdown currently being experienced by English local government. But leaders in the province are taking this as...
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4 Jul 13
Chief executive appointments to Northern Ireland’s 11 new councils will be made through open competition, environment minister Alex Attwood has announced. The minister said this would be the fairest...
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8 Apr 13
A 5p carrier bag tax comes into effect in Northern Ireland today.
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7 Nov 12
Regional rate rises in Northern Ireland will be capped at 2.2%, in line with inflation, Finance Minister Sammy Wilson has confirmed.
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7 Nov 12
The Northern Ireland government has slashed the amount it spends on external consultants by more than a third.
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7 Nov 12
Plans to impose a levy on large retailers in Northern Ireland were given the green light by Assembly members.
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7 Nov 12
Northern Ireland Finance Minister Sammy Wilson has warned that devolution of fiscal powers to the province could be economically dangerous.
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6 Nov 12
Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister Michelle O’Neill has asked her officials to speed up paying Single Farm Payments.
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6 Nov 12
Special measures have been introduced at the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust after an outbreak of psuedomonas killed three premature babies at the city’s Royal Maternity Hospital
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6 Nov 12
An extra £72m is to be spent on schools and children’s services in Northern Ireland over the next three years after the province’s education budget was revised.
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6 Nov 12
Northern Irish pensioners could be missing out on benefits of between £31m and £197m, the NI Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee has warned
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6 Nov 12
Northern Ireland Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Michelle O’Neill has launched a grant to ensure people living in remote areas have access to safe and affordable drinking water
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6 Nov 12
Northern Ireland has launched an apprenticeship scheme for the information technology sector
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6 Nov 12
The Northern Ireland Government is sharing £4.3m among four councils to develop ‘green and healthy’ transport.
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6 Nov 12
Voluntary and community groups in Northern Ireland have been urged to apply for a share of a £700,000 funding pot aimed at tackling rural poverty and social isolation.
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6 Nov 12
Sinn Féin councillor Seán McPeake was appointed president of the Northern Ireland Local Government Association for the 2012/13 term following its September 28 AGM
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6 Nov 12
Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly have backed the UK government’s welfare-reform plans by 60 votes to 42.
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6 Nov 12
More than a quarter of Northern Ireland government departments failed to file a clean set of accounts last year, the auditor general has revealed.
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18 Sep 12
Twenty-five economists have urged ministers to ditch national pay bargaining in the public sector, saying it is ‘bad for Britain’.
11 Aug 14Iain Duncan Smith will today defend the government’s welfare reforms by insisting that measures including the introduction of a £26,000 benefit cap are ensuring a ‘social recovery’ in the UK...
10 Jul 14Public sector workers across the UK are taking strike action today to protest pay restraint and pension changes.
20 Nov 13Local communities in England lose £4.1bn each year to the UK’s devolved nations through the ‘outdated’ Barnett Formula for distributing public spending, the Local Government Association has claimed...
30 Sep 13Public services in Northern Ireland are not subject to the burning platform of fiscal meltdown currently being experienced by English local government. But leaders in the province are taking this as...
18 Sep 12Twenty-five economists have urged ministers to ditch national pay bargaining in the public sector, saying it is ‘bad for Britain’.
