Publications

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...

The Department made Regulations to implement the McCloud Remedy on 28 September 2023 and these Regulations are titled the Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 (SR. 2023 No. 149). A...

This Bill will allow the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) to introduce new administrative liability orders, to replace the outdated court-based liability order process, to substantially speed up the time it takes for the CMS to...

This quarterly publication provides an overview on the performance of the Child Maintenance Service in Northern Ireland. This publication contains information up to the quarter ending March 2024.

The Family Resources Survey for Northern Ireland 2022-23 was released on 30 May 2024. The proposed date of next publication will be Summer 2025.

In Summer 2022 Analytics Division commenced a review of the Housing Statistics publications. The below document details the outcomes from this review and the changes implemented to the Northern Ireland Housing Report, the Northern Ireland...

Universal Credit is a new payment to help support households that are out of work or are on a low income. Universal Credit was introduced in Northern Ireland on a phased geographical basis from 27...

Personal Independence Payment (PIP) was introduced in Northern Ireland in June 2016, and replaced Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for people aged between 16 and 64 years old. PIP and DLA cannot be claimed at the...

The Benefit Cap is a limit on the total amount of benefit that working-age people can receive. From 31 May 2016, the amount a household could receive in benefit income was limited to £26,000 per...

The Benefits Statistics Summary is released quarterly in the last week of February, May, August and November.

This is a proposed policy change in relation to the introduction of a threshold of income or income/ assets of £20k below which charities in Northern Ireland would not be required to register nor report...

Residential building safety measures have been paramount following the Grenfell tragedy. The limitation period for defective buildings in NI is currently six years as set out in the Limitation (Northern Ireland) Order 1989. England have...

The Department for Communities has published the Summary Report relating to the Private Tenancies Act (Northern Ireland) 2022.

The Northern Ireland Housing Bulletin is a quarterly bulletin containing information on new housing starts and completions, homelessness, the NI House Price Index and new house sales and prices.

Aims to set a rent level for protected and statutory tenancies that meet the fitness standard. At present this applies to 334 tenancies.In general, the wider community and in particular, specific sections of the community...

Current cremation legislation in Northern Ireland dates back to 1961 - the Cremation (Belfast) Regulations (NI) 1961 (the 1961 Regulations) - and only applies to crematoria operated by Belfast City Council. The aim of the...

It is intended that the Bill will introduce special time limits for certain action in respect of damage or defects in relation to buildings. Currently, citizens in Northern Ireland are only afforded 6 years protection...

Information about the Ministerial car and driver

Maintenance costs related to land at Fairview Road in Derry/Londonderry

Information about the state, usage and plans for land at Fairview Road in Derry/Londonderry