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date	06/03/2024
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Integrated Schools: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Answer of 6 March 2024 to Question 16419 on Integrated Schools: Northern Ireland, on what date the Northern Ireland Executive was informed of the removal of the ring-fence for the £150m Fresh Start Agreement funding.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South
tabling member printed	Claire Hanna
uin	17460
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>HM Treasury officials wrote to their counterparts in the Northern Ireland Department of Finance on 1 March 2024 formally confirming the removal of the ring-fence for £150 million of Fresh Start Agreement funding.</p><p> </p><p>This formal confirmation followed official level discussions between the UK Government and the Northern Ireland Civil Service on UK Government funding streams being made available within the financial package to support the restored Executive.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Mr Steve Baker question first answered 12/03/2024 14:23:57 answering member 4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker
tabling member	4827 label Biography information for Claire Hanna

1692733

registered interest
date	29/02/2024
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Integrated Schools: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether Stormont House Agreement Fresh Start funding allocations were included in recent the Northern Ireland Assembly Restoration Package.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South
tabling member printed	Claire Hanna
uin	16419
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>The UK Government is providing the Executive with a significant £3.3 billion spending settlement to stabilise its finances and protect public services. Within this package, we are increasing the spending power of the Executive by repurposing over £700 million of existing and new UK Government funds.</p><p>The Fresh Start agreement in 2015 made provision for funding for integrated and shared education over 10 years. As that capital funding was due to expire at the end of 2024-25, the decision to remove the ring-fence on £150m of Fresh Start Agreement funding was made by the UK Government after assessing existing funding in Northern Ireland. We came to a considered position in response to the challenging budgetary position faced by the Northern Ireland Executive.</p><p>The Northern Ireland Executive will be able to decide how it uses the non-ring fenced funding element of reprioritised and new UK Government funding streams which contribute to the settlement package.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Mr Steve Baker question first answered 06/03/2024 10:22:03 answering member 4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker
tabling member	4827 label Biography information for Claire Hanna

1692547

registered interest
date	28/02/2024
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Integrated Schools: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether capital funding for shared and integrated education was included in the Assembly restoration financial settlement.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South
tabling member printed	Claire Hanna
uin	16257
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2024 answer text <p>The UK Government is providing the Executive with a significant £3.3 billion spending settlement to stabilise its finances and protect public services. Within this package, we are increasing the spending power of the Executive by repurposing over £700 million of existing and new UK Government funds.</p><p>The Fresh Start agreement in 2015 made provision for funding for integrated and shared education over 10 years. As that capital funding was due to expire at the end of 2024-25, the decision to remove the ring-fence on £150m of Fresh Start Agreement funding was made by the UK Government after assessing existing funding in Northern Ireland. We came to a considered position in response to the challenging budgetary position faced by the Northern Ireland Executive.</p><p>The Northern Ireland Executive will be able to decide how it uses the non-ring fenced funding element of reprioritised and new UK Government funding streams which contribute to the settlement package.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Mr Steve Baker question first answered 05/03/2024 16:23:14 answering member 4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker
tabling member	4827 label Biography information for Claire Hanna