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

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.

All instances of actual and suspected Tenancy Fraud should be recorded in a register and reported to the Department’s Social Housing Policy Branch via email using the form TF1 (Initial Notificatio

The Northern Ireland Football Fund (TNIFF) is intended to modernise the physical infrastructure used by local clubs to play the game of football at senior and grassroots level in Northern Ireland.

This is a proposed policy change in relation to the introduction of a threshold of income or income/ assets of £20k below which charities in Northern Ireland would not be required to register nor report to the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland. 

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.

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 Intermediate Rent policy aims to achieve an increase in the supply of affordable homes for rent for lower-moderate income households.

The (budget) policy is trying to meet the challenge of the Department operating within their current spending limits while delivering services and meeting objectives.

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).

These regulations are mainly technical and do not reflect a change in policy.

The ranking of economic projects can be relatively easily determined using a range of quantitative economic measures, but estimating the anticipated impact of arts, heritage, sports and community projects - cultural projects - is more challenging.

The Economic and Social Research Review aims to capture and disseminate key economic and social research relevant to the Department’s policy agenda to inform evidence-based policy making.

The policy was revised as the result of a Judicial Review and a subsequent appeal by the Department for Work and Pensions which was refused.

A change in the Notice to Quit Policy from 28 days to 7 days

The Department for Communities Voluntary and Community Division (VCD) has established a formal change programme aimed at improving how the Department ‘incentivises, supports and enhances community empowerment through an innovative and sustainable voluntary and community

The outturn results for the 2020/21 Public Library Standards which form part of the Department's Delivering Tomorrow’s Libraries policy.

The outturn results for the 2021/22 Public Library Standards which form part of the Department's Delivering Tomorrow’s Libraries policy.

Details of reports and policies which have not progressed due to the absence of a Minister

The objective of the policy is to further (1) support indigenous language and indigenous cultural development and/or (2) support pathways to employment and training through our indigenous languages and associated cultures.