Equality screening archive 2024

Policies screened during the period 1 January to 31 March 2024

• Reduction in Rates Support Grant (RSG) 2023/24
• The Benefit Cap (Annual Limit) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024
• The Social Security Revaluation of Earnings Factors Order (Northern Ireland) 2024
• NIHE rent increase (2024/25)
• The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (General Levy) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024
• The Guaranteed Minimum Pensions Increase Order (Northern Ireland) 2024
• The Social Security and Universal Credit (Migration of Tax Credit Claimants and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024
• The Pension Protection Fund and Occupational Pension Schemes (Levy Ceiling) Order (Northern Ireland) 2024
• Social Capital Loan Scheme
• The Universal Credit and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Work Search and Work Availability Requirements: limitations) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024
• The Occupational Pension Schemes (Collective Money Purchase Schemes) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024
• The Child Support Fees (Revocation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024
• Raising a Concern (Whistleblowing) Guidance
• The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024

Policies screened during the period 1 April to 30 June 2024

• The Occupational Pension Schemes (Collective Money Purchase Schemes) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024
• The Pensions (2005) (Codes of Practice) (Revocation) Order (Northern Ireland) 2024
• The Northern Ireland Football Fund
• Child Support Enforcement Bill
• Prospective Threshold for Charity Registration in NI
• Proposal to increase rents by 7.7% for protected and statutory tenancies for 2024/2025
• Defective Premises Bill
• The Local Government (Cremation) Regulations (NI)
• The introduction of Social Fund Budgeting Loans (SFBL) on-line application service
• Rollout of Universal Credit for Tax Credit and Legacy Benefit customers
• The UC (Administrative Earnings Threshold) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024
• Intermediate Rent Delivery: Funding Arrangements
• The Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Housing Costs (Executive Determinations) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024
• The Occupational Pension Schemes (Funding and Investment Strategy and Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024
• The Pneumoconiosis, etc (Workers’ Compensation) (Northern Ireland) Order 1979: The Pneumoconiosis, etc (Workers’ Compensation) (Specified Diseases and Prescribed Occupations) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2024 and the Pneumoconiosis, etc (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024
• 3rd remaking of 2023 Annual up-rating of social security pensions, benefits and allowances
• 2024 Annual up-rating of social security pensions, benefits and lump sum payments

Policies screened during the period 1 July to 30 September 2024

• Gambling Codes of Practice – ATMs, Credit, Protection of Children and Young People, Self Exclusion
• The Social Security (State Pension Age Claimants: Closure of Tax Credits) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024
• The Social Security (Genuine and Sufficient Link to the United Kingdom) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024
• Employment Incentive Scheme for the Unemployed and Economically Inactive aged 50-64
• Increasing the Northern Ireland Co-Ownership Housing Association (Co-Ownership) Property Value Limit (PVL) from £190,000 to £195,000
• DfC Business Plan 2024-2025
• Reduction in Rate Support Grant (RSG) 2024-2025

Policies screened during the period 1 October to 31 December 2024

• Fuel Poverty Strategy
• The State Pension Revaluation for Transitional Pensions Order (Northern Ireland) 2024
• The State Pension Debits and Credits (Revaluation) Order (Northern Ireland) 2024
• The Occupational Pensions (Revaluation) Order (Northern Ireland) 2024
• Bellaghy Bawn Writers Residency
• Gender Pay Gap Information Regulations
• The Five Cs Public Realm Project
• Integrated Advice Partnership Fund
• Belfast Streets Ahead 5 – Phase 1: Blackstaff Square Area
• The Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024
• The Northern Ireland Football Fund - Performance Club Strand
• The Social Security (Infected Blood Capital Disregard) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024

If you have any queries about any of the screening exercises completed please contact Equality Unit.