Publications

Statistics on knowledge of Sign Language: findings from the 2023/24 Continuous Household Survey.

This document presents the findings from the consultation on the Department for Communities’ proposed Budget 2024-25 allocations. The public consultation period on the Department's Budget 2024-25 allocations closed on 3 September 2024.

A study on market failure in the heritage sector in Northern Ireland. This study includes four reports: a literature review, survey of listed building owners, survey of scheduled monument owners, and a market failure analysis...

The Department for Communities invites applications for the appointment of the Arts Council NI Chair, providing the individual with an excellent opportunity to make a significant contribution and positive difference to the leadership, direction and...

Residential Building Safety Division (RBSD) notes and Q&A from stakeholder co-design sessions being held from January 25 to June 25.

This Statistical Bulletin, which is published once a year (along with three Statistical Factsheets), presents key information on employment vacancies which have been notified to the Department for Communities (DfC).

The fact sheet provides a quarterly overview of the performance and composition of the Fund for the three months ending 31 March 2025.

The purpose of this provision is to transfer responsibility for setting the amount of the basic allowance paid to councillors from councils and pass it instead to the Department for Communities (DfC).

Personal injury claims logged by solicitors in 2024.

Initiatives since 2020 designed to provide services/supports to address domestic/sexual violence/abuse and/or Ending Violence Against Women.

Ministerial travel outside the UK and Ireland since the Executive was restored in February 2024.

Costs related to the redevelopment of Casement Park since July 2021.

Participation by employers and claimants on the Employment Support Scheme.

Application of Department of Finance policy to the former Mackies site.

Number of PIP claimants with ASD spectrum including Asperger's syndrome for the previous financial year.

Expenditure on Public Realm Schemes over the past five years.

Homelessness in the Mid Ulster area.

In 2023, the department’s Historic Environment Division (HED) commissioned a statistical survey of the condition of Northern Ireland’s c. 9,000 listed buildings based upon a detailed investigation of a representative sample of 1,504 structures. The...

This publication presents the results of a Department for Communities' 2024 Northern Ireland Gambling Prevalence Survey. The main themes explored in the survey are: participation in gambling types; attitudes to gambling and; problem and at...

The Department for Communities' consultation, ‘Revised Code of Practice on Obtaining Information’ was open from 7 October 2024 to 17 November 2024. Its main purpose was to consider amendments to the Social Security Fraud Act...