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UK Shared Prosperity Fund: Northern Ireland

Answer

The £2.6 billion UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) will support the UK Government’s wider commitment to level up all parts of the UK by delivering on each of the levelling up objectives. The Fund will be delivered by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), working closely with Northern Ireland partners through a Partnership Group to design a Northern Ireland Investment Plan.

DLUHC have established the Northern Ireland UKSPF Partnership Group with representative groups for key sectors, including the voluntary and community sector, business, higher education/skills and local authorities, as well as the Northern Ireland Office. A record of the first meeting, and subsequent meetings, will be published on GOV.UK in due course. We are also engaging with other stakeholders through workshops and meetings to maximise thematic and sectoral insight.

Its membership will be reviewed on conclusion of the Investment Plan process, as the Fund moves into its delivery phase. The organisations currently represented on the Northern Ireland Partnership Group are:

Organisation	Sector
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC)	UKG
Northern Ireland Office	UKG
Society of Local Authority Chief Executives (SOLACE) (Mid Ulster District Council)	Local government
Society of Local Authority Chief Executives (SOLACE) (Belfast City Council)	Local government
Queen’s University Belfast	Higher education/skills
Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action (NICVA)	Voluntary and community
Chief Officers Third Sector (CO3)	Voluntary and community
NOW Group	Social enterprise
Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce	Business
Confederation of British Industry	Business

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

42299

Session

2022-23

Subjects

Northern Ireland UK Shared Prosperity Fund

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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