DfC Budget 2025-26 - Equality Impact Assessment (EQIA) Final Decision Report
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This document presents the findings from the consultation on the Department for Communities’ proposed Budget 2025-26 allocations. The public consultation period on the Department's Budget 2025-26 allocations closed on 7 August 2025.
Following the end of the consultation period, the Department reviewed all responses, to inform final Budget 2025-26 allocations. The Department's Final Decision Report was delayed as a result of further Executive allocations received in-year, which enabled further mitigations to be implemented. Final allocations to the Department were confirmed in February 2026.
This report has been produced to highlight the comments received during the consultation period and to outline the steps taken by the Department to mitigate impacts on Section 75 groups.