Publications

Details of property acquired by the Department for the Queens Parade development site.

Number of personal injury claims registered with the Department in 2023.

The number of betting shops in N.Ireland and a related code of practice.

Benefit fraud investigations since 2019.

Sub-regional stadia Funding to local football clubs.

Public appointments made by the Department since May 2021.

The Northern Ireland Poverty and Income Inequality report 2022-23 was released on 27 March 2024. The proposed date of next publication will be spring 2025.

This publication brings together key statistics on the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.

HB Memos contain further guidance on the interpretation of legislation to Housing Benefit and should be read in conjunction with the Housing Benefit Decision Makers Guide.

The (budget) policy is trying to meet the challenge of the Department operating within their current spending limits while delivering services and meeting objectives. The RSG budget is a discretionary amount of funding which is...

Headline statistics on the number of liquor licences in Northern Ireland at 31 December 2023.

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 December 2023

The proposed statutory rule allows earnings factors derived from historic earnings to be restated at current values (i.e. values at tax year 2024/25 determined by reference to Average Weekly Earnings for 12 months ending September...

There is a limit on the total amount of benefit that working age people can get. This is called the Benefit Cap. The Benefit Cap can be applied through Housing Benefit (HB) and Universal Credit...

Minister Gordon Lyons has announced support for 287 Voluntary and Community organisations, funded through the Department’s Voluntary Community Division and Community Empowerment Division.A list of the voluntary and community organisations who will avail of this...

This aims to confirm a rent level which is calculated to ensure the Housing Executive can adequately fund its 2024/25 budget and to maintain, to the greatest extent possible, the current value of rents amidst...

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...

The proposed statutory rule specifies the percentage by which the guaranteed minimum pension (GMP) element of an individual’s occupational pension entitlement is increased with effect from 6 April 2024 (a person could accrue a GMP...

Section 170 of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993 allows for the administration costs of the Pensions Regulator and the Pensions Ombudsman, and in part the Money and Pensions Service to be recovered by...

The Department for Communities is the sponsor Department for the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (Arts Council NI). The Partnership Agreement explains the overall governance framework within which Arts Council NI operates, including the framework...