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Block Grant: Northern Ireland

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the potential impact of her Department's proposed welfare reforms on the Northern Ireland block grant.

answeredTreasury

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
18 Mar 2025
Target answer date
20 Mar 2025
Answer
24 Mar 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 18 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the potential impact of her Department's proposed welfare reforms on the Northern Ireland block grant.

  2. 20 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 24 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    For any funding implications of these welfare reforms, the arrangements set out in the Statement of Funding Policy will apply in the usual way.Where UK Government programmes are in Annually Managed Expenditure (AME), such as welfare, the UK Government pro...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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