Publications

Funding to redevelop Bangor Marine Garden including the ‘Big Hand’ sculpture

Information about the decision to implement 40% office attendance in the NICS

Information about plans to move people from Employment Support Allowance to Universal Credit

Headline statistics on engagement in culture, arts, heritage and sport: findings from the 2023/24 Continuous Household Survey.

This is the twenty first report of the Historic Buildings Council for Northern Ireland.

The Scheme of Emergency Financial Assistance (SEFA) is designed to aid individual householders who have suffered severe inconvenience as a result of internal flooding to their properties. Householders who are deemed eligible under the criteria...

The 2024-25 Rates Support Grant provided to Councils will be set at £3.1m, a £1.8m reduction on the grant provided in 2023-24. The (budget) policy is trying to meet the challenge of the Department operating...

All instances of actual and suspected Tenancy Fraud should be recorded in a register and reported to the Department’s Social Housing Policy Branch via email using the form TF1 (Initial Notification of Tenancy Frauds to...

The Energy Rating of Housing in Northern Ireland is an annual report which uses data from Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) to provide information on: energy rating, carbon dioxide emissions and heating fuel types for dwellings...

Support to stimulate heritage research work in Northern Ireland by funding initiatives that aim to carry out and/or share the results of research into the historic environment.Support aimed at stimulating heritage projects that want to...

Historic Environment Division has created this suite of guidance documents for practitioners of archaeology in Northern Ireland in partnership with the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA), Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland (IAI) and National Museums...

The Department for Communities held a number of workshops from April 2024 to June 2024 to gather views on fuel poverty. The workshops focused on topics eligibility, collaboration and partnership and understanding and framing. Here...

The Department for Work and Pensions has published guidance to help pension fund trustees and managers prepare an annualised version of the accrued pot value for members with certain money purchase benefits. This Annualised accrued...

Partnership Agreement between the Department for Communities and National Museums NI. The Department for Communities is the sponsor Department for National Museums NI. The Partnership Agreement explains the overall governance framework within which National Museums...

Part 1 of the Pension Schemes Act 2021 provided the legislative framework to introduce collective money purchase pension schemes to Great Britain. Part 2 provided corresponding legislation for Northern Ireland.

The purpose of this Order is to revoke ten of The Pensions Regulator’s (the Regulator) existing codes of practice (the old codes). It also revokes three earlier versions of codes 5,6, and 7 which were...

The Northern Ireland Homelessness bulletin is a biannual publication which contains information on a range of areas relating to homelessness. The report is currently divided into three sections which are: Homeless Presenters; Homeless Acceptances; and...

This guidance provides a brief history and background to explain the part played by historic windows, how they are significant, how they can be retained, and, where necessary, how they can be best upgraded to...

Universal Credit has developed a range of Move to Universal Credit stakeholder products to specifically help organisations to support households who are required to move to Universal Credit. These products are intended for advisor reference...

The Northern Ireland Football Fund (TNIFF) is intended to modernise the physical infrastructure used by local clubs to play the game of football at senior and grassroots level in Northern Ireland. It is also expected...