Publications

This document contains information on the administrative data sources used by the Housing team in the Department for Communities, Analytics Division, as well as quality assessments on each of them.

The Benefit Cap is a limit on the total amount of benefit that working-age people can receive. From 31 May 2016, the amount a household could receive in benefit income was limited to £26,000 per annum.

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

The below forms should be used accordinly when transfering any records to the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland. 

The Benefit Cap is a limit on the total amount of benefit that working-age people can receive. From 31 May 2016, the amount a household could receive in benefit income was limited to £26,000 per annum.

This Regulatory Impact Assessment considers the impact of simplifying the conditions which must be satisfied for trustees or managers of pension schemes, or other parties who hold the right, to transfer groups of certain pension scheme members from one scheme to another withou

This screening deals with the Local Government (Consequential Amendments) Regulations (NI) 2018

This Regulatory Impact Assessment considers the impact of providing for a new requirement for trustees or managers of money purchase schemes that are occupational pension schemes to publish scheme transaction costs and administration charges, and to provide information to memb

This Regulatory Impact Assessment considers the impact of amending existing Regulations to provide for a deferred debt arrangement to enable an employer in certain multi-employer occupational pension schemes to defer the requirement to pay an employer debt on ceasing to employ

This Regulatory Impact Assessment considers the impact of providing for a new requirement for schemes to send members with ‘safeguarded-flexible’ benefits information about the guarantees those benefits offer, before they proceed to transfer, convert or flexibly ac

This comprehensive publication provides teacher with a lot of detail about Carrickfergus Castle. It can be used at KS3 – The Impact of the Norman’s on the Medieval World.

This comprehensive publication provides teacher with a lot of detail about Dundrum Castle and includes a guided tour. It can be used at KS3 – The Impact of the Norman’s on the Medieval World.

This document sets out guidance on how DfC's Historic Environment Division (HED) develops advice to local councils, heritage consultants, and others on planning applications.

The Benefit Cap is a limit on the total amount of benefit that working-age people can receive. From 31 May 2016, the amount a household could receive in benefit income was limited to £26,000 per annum.

The Social Sector Size Criteria reports below detail the number of Welfare Supplementary Payments that stopped when customers moved properties and continued to under-occupy by at least the same number of bedrooms.

The Benefit Cap is a limit on the total amount of benefit that working-age people can receive.

Amounts & Part-Week Payments | Duration of Award | Effect of Work | Employed Earners | Self-Employed Earnings | Assessment Phase and Components | Sanctions | Transitions

The Department aims to provide a good level of service to its customers but sometimes things do go wrong. When that happens, we should put matters right as quickly as possible. As part of that process, we should consider redress.

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