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First Special Report - Investment in Northern Ireland: Government Response to the Committee’s First Report of Session

Published 2 February 2023

Northern Ireland Affairs Committee Investment in Northern Ireland Report on parliament.uk ↗

At a glance

The government's response

This document responds to First Report - Investment in Northern Ireland.

This is the government's response, published 2 February 2023.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The government's response to the Committee's report on investment in Northern Ireland sets out funding already allocated and published, says several areas are for the Executive or local partners, and declines some specific requests.

  • On Levelling Up, it says the first round gave 2.9% to Northern Ireland and Rounds 1 and 2 together £119.8m, which is "3.16% of the Fund".
  • On New Deal funding, it "can confirm" that funding provided to Northern Ireland Executive Departments "will be ringfenced", and says the Secretary of State will make further decisions "in due course" on the remainder.
  • On trade agreements, it says it "consider[s] it unnecessary" to provide separate explanatory memoranda on how agreements interact with the Protocol, and that impact assessments do not currently consider specific Protocol measures.
  • On the university cap and City and Growth Deal day-to-day resourcing, it says these are matters for Executive Departments and local Deal partners respectively; on engagement with local stakeholders it "will explore how this can be best achieved".

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