Public Finance Scrutiny Unit, Author at Research Matters

An image showing part of the dashboard for departmental outturn data, including a number of bar charts

Departmental forecasting and analysis: Most recent update

9th November 202210th November 2022 Public Finance Scrutiny Unit

Reading Time: < 1 minutes This dashboard visually presents Northern Ireland’s departmental Total Forecast Outturn (TFO) data – capital and resource spending – when released

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Finance

Northern Ireland public finances: An update

5th December 20195th December 2019 Public Finance Scrutiny Unit Fiscal policy and the annual Budget

Reading Time: 3 minutes This blog article provides an update on Northern Ireland public finances in the absence of fully functioning devolved government. It

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Finance

Is Northern Ireland underrated? Examining the context for a review of our rating system

6th June 201914th November 2019 Public Finance Scrutiny Unit Business rates, Domestic rates

Reading Time: 7 minutes On 9 May 2019 the Permanent Secretary for the Department of Finance (DoF) announced a fresh appraisal of the fundamental

Figure 1: Resources allocated at Monitoring Rounds 2011-12 to 2015-16

Finance

What is in-year monitoring and how does it work?

13th June 201630th May 2017 Public Finance Scrutiny Unit

Reading Time: 3 minutes Later this month, the new Minister of Finance will announce the outcome of the Executive’s June Monitoring Round. But what

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