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A new Cyber Security Centre was officially launched today which will provide advice and guidance to citizens and businesses to help them become more cyber resilient.

Finance Minister Conor Murphy, Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey and the Lord Mayor of Belfast, Daniel Baker have welcomed the first same-sex marriage, which will take place tomorrow.

NICS employee Ricki Kettle has been awarded the Stonewall Trans Role Model of the Year 2020 award for her contribution to supporting trans colleagues within the NI Civil Service.

Finance Minister Conor Murphy has expressed concern with the budget of the Human Rights Commission.

Finance Minister, Conor Murphy today allocated over £40 million as part of the 2019/20 January monitoring round process. This is the method by which departments can return unspent money for reallocation.

Finance Minister, Conor Murphy has today published strengthened transparency and governance arrangements for the appointments of Special Advisers.

Finance Minister, Conor Murphy today spoke by telephone to Alison Millar, NIPSA General Secretary ahead of their meeting scheduled for next week.

Finance Minister Conor Murphy and Health Minister Robin Swann today met to discuss the importance of a sustainable funding settlement for health and social care.

After the British Government published its proposed financial package, Finance Minister, Conor Murphy said:

Following his appointment as Finance Minister, Conor Murphy has said it’s time for the two Governments to deliver the promised financial package.

The Department of Finance has appointed Mr Edgar Jardine as Chair of the Department’s Statistical Advisory Committee (SAC) and Dr Anathasia Xenaki and Dr Danielle Blaylock as new Committee members.

Known as Reval2020 – this process will result in a new non-domestic Valuation List being used to calculate business rate bills from April 2020. This process is about restoring fairness in the rating system by redistributing basically the same rating burden using more up-to-date values...

The Department of Finance has appointed David Algie and Ross Reid to the Northern Ireland Building Regulations Advisory Committee (NIBRAC).

Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland (OSNI) within the Department of Finance has recently installed a new mobile mapping system which will revolutionise the collection of mapping data.

The Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS) has launched a recruitment campaign for over 300 permanent Administrative Officers across Northern Ireland. The starting salary is £20,951 and the closing date is noon on 23rd December.

The annual January monitoring round process is currently underway. During this process Departments declare reduced requirements and surrender any funding no longer required to the Department of Finance for reallocation. These reallocations are normally made in January.

The Department of Finance has opened a £30,000 Innovation and Outreach Fund to encourage the use of open data.

There’s just one week left to have your say on the Department of Finance’s consultation on business rates.

Holywood Library will be home to artworks from the Northern Ireland Civil Service and Office of Public Works (OPW), Dublin collections for the next eight weeks.

In keeping with the overarching policy set by the UK Government, the Department has confirmed the policy continues with the same approach set in 2018/19 of moving away from a cross-public sector pay policy of limiting average awards to one per cent.