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These Regulatory Impact Assessments focus on the three main measures in the Pension Schemes Bill:

The below document and the guidance within it have been updated as of 19 October 2021. This revision consolidates guidance on social distancing and face coverings, whilst removing references to expired sources of other guidance.

The food parcel initiative emerged in response to the COVID-19 emergency to ensure those who were shielding or vulnerable had access to food during the pandemic. The service is due to end on 26 June for those not shielding.

The Local Government Circular 21/2016 is designed to assist councils to meet the Performance Improvement requirements set out in Part 12 of the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 2014.

The Department requests information from councils at the end of each Quarter on the processing of invoices as detailed in the circular LG 19/2016 Prompt Payment Guidance.

The Scheme of Emergency Financial Assistance (SEFA) is designed to aid individual householders who have suffered severe inconvenience as a result of internal flooding to their properties.

The Electronic Communications Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 enables the Department to authorise the use of electronic communications for any purpose where it considers that the authorisation is such that the extent (if any) to which records of things done for that purpose will b

This EQIA focuses on the key proposals in the proposed Bill, which are:

To ensure effective recruitment of volunteers and safeguarding of the vulnerable good practice must be adhered to, especially in roles defined as Regulated Activity.

This document reports the findings of both consultations on the proposals to seek reversal of the reclassification of Registered Housing Associations (RHAs) in Northern Ireland and provides analysis of respondents’ feedback to the consultation.

The Department, through NISRA, publishes a quarterly statistical bulletin on benefit data. The latest release of that bulletin was released on 26 August 2020 and it covers part of the current COVID-19 emergency situation.

The Department publishes the Annual Report which contains figures on Discretionary Support performance and expenditure. However, that report, covering the current period, is not due to be published until later in the year.

This infographic provides a range of information on some of the work carried out by the Department since the onset of COVID-19 (16 March 2020) until 12 September 2021 (unless otherwise noted).

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