Question follow-through · 32942
Northern Ireland: Investment
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 24 February to Question 29416 on Investment: Northern Ireland, how much of the funding already deployed is from the private sector; and over what period he expects the total a
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 24 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 27 Feb 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 24 February to Question 29416 on Investment: Northern Ireland, how much of the funding already deployed is from the private sector; and over what period he expects the total a
27 Feb 2025
Target answer date
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27 Feb 2025
Answer published
The £10 million already deployed is solely from the fund, private sector investment is in addition to that. The fund expects to deploy the £70m over 5 years, until November 2028.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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