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23 Nov 11
The UK's four children's commissioners have urged the government to reassess its spending plans, saying the cuts risk pushing more families into poverty.
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28 Sep 11
Northern Ireland's only intercontinental air link has been handed a tax break to help it survive.
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15 Aug 11
Scottish ministers will this week publish a consultation paper on Scotland taking control of Corporation Tax, undeterred by a weekend intervention from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of...
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1 Jun 11
Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson has warned his Scottish counterpart that Scotland could lose Westminster block grant if it follows Belfast’s bid to set its own corporation tax.
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19 Apr 11
It’s all in the timing. One year after the coalition government was formed, the turn of the electoral cycle means that on May 5 it faces its largest test short of a general election.
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28 Feb 11
Rents for Housing Executive tenants in Northern Ireland will rise by 3.75%, ministers have announced
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28 Feb 11
Northern Ireland's social development minister is arguing that Westminster's planned welfare reforms will not work in the province, with its particularly high levels of disadvantage and economic ...
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19 Jan 11
Disputes between the devolved nations and Whitehall over funding issues should be resolved independently and not by the Treasury, the author of the review into Welsh funding and finance has said.
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11 Jan 11
Retired public servants in Northern Ireland are today lobbying politicians in a dispute over backdated equal pay
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4 Jan 11
Tony Redmond, former chair of the Commission for Local Administration in England and local government ombudsman, has been knighted in the latest round of honours
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21 Dec 10
Seven out of seventeen Northern Ireland Government departments have had their finances qualified this year, with millions of pounds of public money not properly accounted for.
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10 Dec 10
Northern Ireland will be hit harder by benefit cuts and tax rises than any other region in the UK except London, according to research published today
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26 Nov 10
Absenteeism has risen in Northern Ireland's councils, according to the chief local government auditor
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18 Nov 10
Should the public sector start drowning its sorrows as the cuts kick in? Doom merchants certainly seem to think so. But perhaps in reality the glass is half full and not half empty. Tony Travers...
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20 Oct 10
The impact of the Spending Review will be less severe for the devolved administrations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland than it will be for most Whitehall departments, the UK government...
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23 Sep 10
There must be no ‘wringing of hands’ or ‘whingeing’ about the spending cuts to come, the Northern Irish finance minister has said.
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25 Aug 10
School buildings in Northern Ireland are vastly underfunded, despite a £353m underspend by the Department for Education, auditors have found
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14 Jun 10
Public servants have once again been richly rewarded in the latest round of honours
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28 May 10
Stringent public spending cuts present the devolution settlement in the UK with its toughest test to date, a think-tank says today
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24 May 10
The formula which allocates public funding per head to people in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should be extended to regions in the north of England, according to a think-tank
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7 May 10
Regions are at risk of becoming ‘entrenched’ in a damaging public spending culture if nationalist parties are given too many concessions during the fight to secure a stable government, think-tanks...
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15 Apr 10
A hung Parliament would offer a ‘once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’ to secure strategic gains for unionism, the leader of Northern Ireland’s main unionist party has said.
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15 Feb 10
Northern Ireland’s 26 district councils have agreed their domestic and non-domestic rates for 2010/11, with variations in the increases imposed ranging from zero to more than 8%.
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10 Dec 09
The European Investment Bank is lending UK housing associations a record £345m to spend on regeneration schemes
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10 Dec 09
Replacing the Barnett Formula with a needs-based system would be ‘relatively straightforward’, according to the Independent Commission on Funding and Finance for Wales