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Chancellor’s Spring Statement 2025 and subsequent developments: What do they mean for Northern Ireland’s public finances and economy?

“A changing world” and “a generational challenge” – that is how the Chancellor described the global political and economic landscape when delivering her Spring Statement… Read More »Chancellor’s Spring Statement 2025 and subsequent developments: What do they mean for Northern Ireland’s public finances and economy?

It seems ages since the Chancellor delivered her Spring Statement on 26 March 2025. And now the Chancellor has significantly more factors to address in… Read More »Spring Statement 2025 – Understanding the relevance of Spring Statement 2025 for Northern Ireland

By Nathan Mulholland and Eileen Regan On 23 March 2022, the United Kingdom (UK) Chancellor delivered his 2022 Spring Statement, which this article considers from… Read More »Spring Statement 2022: Blossoming prospects for NI?

This visualisation provides a series of interactive graphs compiled by the Assembly’s Research and Information Service (RaISe), which offer a snapshot of government funding allocated… Read More »Snapshot of COVID-19 Funding: Department for Communities

By James Bamford, Karen McCallion & Thomas Procter The Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI) has the role of distributing arts funding for the Department… Read More »How has Arts Council NI COVID-19 emergency funding been distributed to arts organisations?

As Northern Ireland (NI) emerges from the widespread COVID-19 public health crisis into a phase of more localised outbreaks and disruption, there have been numerous… Read More »Northern Ireland economy: Autumn 2020 update

This blog article is the second of two providing updates on NI’s public finances: Update no.1 looks back to a number of recent developments. This… Read More »Autumn Statement and NI Budget 2021-22. NI public finances update no.2 (Autumn 2020)

The summer months are often quiet times for NI public finances. But, like so much else about 2020, this summer has been a little different.… Read More »Poundhog Day: The UK Chancellor’s Summer Statement. NI public finances update no.1 (Summer 2020)