Publications

The PVL is the cap on the value of a property that can be purchased through Co-Ownership. The Department for Communities (DfC) is responsible for reviewing the PVL on an annual basis.

This is a proposed short-term intervention to boost the levels of food stock available to those in the charitable sector assisting those struggling with access to food as a result of the Cost-of-Living crisis.

This screening considers the equality obligations undertaken in respect of only the 2024-25 departmental business plan.

This good practice guide aims to assist councils achieve a consistent approach when considering serving a Building Preservation Notice on an unlisted building.

There is a limit on the total amount of benefit that working age people can get. This is called the Benefit Cap. The Benefit Cap can be applied through Housing Benefit (HB) and Universal Credit (UC).

There is a limit on the total amount of benefit that working age people can get. This is called the Benefit Cap. The Benefit Cap can be applied through Housing Benefit (HB) and Universal Credit (UC).

There is a limit on the total amount of benefit that working age people can get. This is called the Benefit Cap. The Benefit Cap can be applied through Housing Benefit (HB) and Universal Credit (UC).

This document replaces and supersedes Annex B and Annex C of Planning Policy Statement 6 (PPS6) ‘Planning, Archaeology and the Built Heritage’,  published in March 1999.

The 2024-25 Rates Support Grant provided to Councils will be set at £3.1m, a £1.8m reduction on the grant provided in 2023-24.

This good practice guide aims to assist district councils achieve a consistent approach when considering serving an Urgent Works Notice on a listed building (or building in a Conservation Area(CA) where the Department of Infrastructure (DfI)  has issued a direction).

Following on from the consultation on Defined Benefit pension schemes: security and sustainability, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has published the White Paper Protecting Defined Benefit pension schemes.

This Regulatory Impact Assessment considers the impact of a Statutory Rule that amends existing regulations which restrict the extent to which occupational pension schemes can make certain investments with links to the employers who use the scheme, defined in the Pensions (Nor

Urgent Urgent legislation was made in March 2022 to ensure that certain cohorts of people coming here from Ukraine as a result of the conflict, are exempt from the habitual residence test (HRT) and the past presence test (PPT) to facilitate entitlement to social security benef

The introduction of this fund for Northern Ireland on 1 June 2022 was a commitment set out in the New Decade, New Approach deal, published in January 2020.

Universal Credit (UC) supports people who are on a low income or out of work and helps to ensure that they are better off in work and are better off when they earn more.

The Executive’s Child Poverty Strategy, published in March 2016, sets out the vision to eradicate child poverty in the future.

It is the policy intent of Universal Credit (UC) to not only support out of work claimants to move into employment, but also to support working claimants who are in receipt of UC to progress and increase their wages thus reducing their reliance on UC.

The Department currently administers a number of Executive approved welfare mitigation schemes which are designed to alleviate the impact of specific changes to social security benefits.

The competition to award funding to support the delivery of a new supply of Intermediate Rent homes closed to applications on 23 August 2024. The outcome of the competition will be available in due course.

Historic Environment Division (HED) has a statutory role in development planning.