The UK Government set out plans aimed at cutting spending on health and disability benefits on Tuesday.Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall announced it would become harder to qualify for Personal ...

UK Ministers are under pressure to tackle the growing welfare bill. Working-age adults accounted for over £48billion on health and disability benefits in 2023/24, according to the OBR. By 2029/30 this ...

Andrew Hamilton said he is "flabbergasted" at plans to make it harder to qualify for Personal Independence Payment.

Stormont’s health minister used his St Patrick’s Day trip to America to focus on strengthening transatlantic partnerships and ...

The utility regulator for Northern Ireland has launched an investigation into NI Water, The Irish News can reveal. It follows a Stormont infrastructure committee session on March 5, in which senior NI ...

This we learned that several city centre car parks are to be transformed into new housing and retail development ...

The Ulster Scots commissioner will not have to speak Ulster Scots, an advertisement for the new post has revealed - in Ulster ...

The final sum to tackle health waiting lists in Northern Ireland is “still to be determined”, Stormont Health Minister Mike Nesbitt has said. It comes after some apparent disagreement over figures ...

Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn is due to meet with the Stormont Communities Minister over the next steps to redevelop ...

Deputy First Minster Emma Little-Pengelly has attended an event at Stormont marking three decades of National ... the Lyric Theatre in Belfast, Bangor Courthouse, the Divis and the Black Mountain ...

She said the publication of the first programme for government agreed by a Stormont executive since 2011 marked a "significant day" for the coalition in Belfast. Deputy First Minister Emma Little ...

For Stormont, funding these services is a big ... The Executive pledges to “make progress” on the west Belfast’s stadium’s transformation – it has lain derelict for over a decade and ...