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While there, the Secretary of State will conduct routine meetings with a number of US figures, and update them on the current political situation.

• Updated: 12 March 2024

Spring Budget 2024

• Updated: 6 March 2024

The UK Government has written to the NI Minister of Finance outlining the detail of the spending settlement worth in excess of £3.3 billion

• Updated: 13 February 2024

Tax cuts for working people and UK businesses headlined Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement.

• Updated: 22 November 2023

Geospatial Commission launches revolutionary underground digital map to support economic growth, improve safety and reduce delays.

• Updated: 5 April 2023

Minister of State announces £18.9 million investment in NI’s Cyber Security industry.

• Updated: 22 February 2023

Minister of State for Northern Ireland, Steve Baker MP, has announced that Belfast Distillery Company has secured an historic distribution agreement in South Korea.

• Updated: 5 January 2023

Minister of State for Northern Ireland Steve Baker has today (8 December) visited Invest NI’s new offices in Seoul, South Korea to learn how government funding is boosting Northern Ireland’s profile in the Asia-Pacific regio…

• Updated: 8 December 2022

The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has set a Northern Ireland Budget for 2022/23 and will bring forward legislation for this Budget in a Budget Bill in due course.

• Updated: 25 November 2022

The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Shailesh Vara MP, has today welcomed the EU Commission’s decision to adopt the PEACE PLUS programme which will support peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland and the border …

• Updated: 13 July 2022

A meeting of the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference (BIIGC) took place at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office on 2 December 2021.

• Updated: 2 December 2021

City of Derry Airport receives funding to maintain vital Northern Ireland to London route until 2023.

• Updated: 10 March 2021

Earlier today the UK Government announced additional Peace Plus Funding.

• Updated: 17 December 2020

The Chancellor has today announced £900m of new funding for Northern Ireland in 2021/22 in the Spending Review. This is more than double the £400m new funding provided for 2020/21 at the 2019 Spending Round.

• Updated: 25 November 2020

The Shared History Fund launches today, with the Government making available £1million to support the engagement of a wide range of arts, heritage, voluntary, community and other non-profit organisations with the history of …

• Updated: 20 November 2020

Coronavirus (COVID-19): Information for businesses and employers in Northern Ireland

• Updated: 10 June 2020

UK Government announces £17m package to protect freight routes between Northern Ireland and Great Britain

• Updated: 24 April 2020

The UK Government has today announced £163 million to support growth in Northern Ireland

• Updated: 2 October 2019

The UK Government announces £105 million economic package for Derry-Londonderry region.

• Updated: 13 May 2019

Rt Hon Karen Bradley alongside partners has signed the Heads of Terms for the Belfast City Deal

• Updated: 26 March 2019