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date	01/04/2019
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Welfare State: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what discussions her Department has had with officials in the Department for Work and Pensions on the extension of mitigation payments on welfare reform in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	239218
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2019 answer text <p>Following the Fresh Start Agreement, funding was made available by the Executive to mitigate the impact of welfare reform in Northern Ireland. This funding ends in March 2020.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Communities in Northern Ireland is responsible for the delivery of the various mitigation schemes relating to welfare reform in Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p><p>A decision to extend mitigations beyond March 2020 would be a matter for the Northern Ireland Civil Service and not the Department for Work and Pensions.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 03/04/2019 14:11:53 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

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registered interest
date	29/03/2019
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many consultants her department has hired since 2016; and what cost to the public purse has been of such consultants.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	238648
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information on the number of consultants hired in any one year as this work is often commissioned as part of an outcomes based contract to ensure value for money.</p><p>The amount spent on consultants each year since 2016 is:</p><p><strong>2016-17</strong> - £ 5,000</p><p><strong>2017-18</strong> - £ 79,600</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 03/04/2019 12:20:11 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd