PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Public Expenditure: Northern Ireland (6 January 2020)

Question Asked

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Northern Ireland Executive will receive the full £1 billion extra funding agreed in the Confidence and Supply Agreement between the Conservative and Unionist Party and the Democratic Unionist Party during the last Parliament.

Asked by:
Darren Jones (Labour)

Answer

The Confidence and Supply financial annex committed the UK Government to providing £1 billion to Northern Ireland. £ 763 million has been released so far and the release of further funding would take place following Parliament’s approval in the normal way through the Estimates process.


Answered by:
Rishi Sunak (Conservative)
10 January 2020

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