Publications

Shaftesbury Square is a major urban space at a  key focal point between the city centre and the suburbs of inner South Belfast.

This Regulatory Impact Assessment considers the impact of changing the current automatic enrolment duties trigger date for post-staging employers to safeguard the operation of the automatic enrolment compliance regime and provide greater certainty to employers over when their

This Regulatory Impact Assessment sets out the policy objectives of the review of the automatic enrolment earnings trigger and qualifying earnings band for the 2017/18 year and the impact on, for example, individuals, employers and the pensions industry.

A composite evaluation framework has been developed to measure the impact of the implementation of Welfare Reform in NI.  Underpinning this are project specific evaluation strategies that have been developed in order to measure the impact of each project.  The impact

This paper sets out the policy position of the Department for Communities, the Department of Health and the Department of Justice on the approach to strategic needs assessment within the Supporting People programme.  Its primary readership are the statutory partners invol

This booklet provides information on Universal Credit and the potential impacts on the population of Northern Ireland. It draws together analysis undertaken by Analytical Services Unit and other parts of the Department, to provide an evidence base for the changes.

This Regulatory Impact Assessment considers changes to the timetable for the phasing in of increases in minimum automatic enrolment contributions, currently due to take place in October 2017 and October 2018.

Publications include results of the Department's questions which have featured in the Northern Ireland Omnibus household survey since September 2012.

This guidance document is intended to help applicants and agents;

The Occupational Pension Schemes (Charges and Governance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (“the 2015 Regulations”) cover a range of measures aimed at controlling the level and range of charges in relevant schemes which are used by employers to meet their automa

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

A number of sets of existing Regulations are being amended in consequence of provisions in the Pension Schemes Act 2015 which extend to Northern Ireland.  This regulatory impact assessment considers changes to the Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Disclosure of I

Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is a new benefit replacing Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for people aged 16 to 64 years. PIP and DLA cannot be claimed at the same time.

This document is an addendum to previous analysis produced by the Department which outlined the Northern Ireland specific impacts of Summer Budget 2015 for benefit claimants (including Tax Credit claimants). 
 

Amendments to wording of Scheme Approval – Band 4 ALPs – Planning, PFG targets are impacted.

The independent research was commissioned to provide up to date and Northern Ireland specific evidence on the economic impact of introducing a Developer Contributions Scheme.

Introduction of the new State Pension will abolish the additional pension for those reaching pensionable age after the start date on 6th April 2016.

These regulatory impact assessments are a critical examination of the effects of welfare changes.

Equality Impact Assessments (EQIA) carried out on the proposals within the Northern Ireland Welfare Reform Bill 2011 to assess whether policy proposals would have a differential impact and in particular, an adverse differential impact on the categories of persons listed in sec

This document outlines the Northern Ireland specific impacts of the Summer Budget 2015 policies for benefit claimants in Northern Ireland (including Tax Credit claimants).