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The Head of the Civil Service, David Sterling, today committed the Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS) to promoting mental wellbeing in the workplace by signing up to the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland’s Mental Health Charter.

The Department of Finance today confirmed the final reallocations to key public services in 2017-18 of £23.3 million of Resource DEL and £10.1 million of Capital DEL.

The Department of Finance has today published a briefing paper on the broad strategic issues that will help inform decisions on a Budget for 2018-19 and 2019-2020 (and 2020/21 for Capital).

The Department of Finance announced today that Northern Ireland public sector pay policy has now been determined for 2017/18.

The Department of Finance today confirmed that key public services will benefit from additional allocations of £73.6 million of Resource DEL and £40.9 million of Capital DEL in 2017/18. The funding includes an additional £53.9 million for health, £26 million for education, and £26 million...

The Department of Finance will start work on a Non-Domestic Rates Revaluation exercise with a view to preparing a new Valuation List for use from April 2020.

The Department of Finance has appointed CBRE Capital Advisors to manage a new £100m Investment Fund

The Department of Finance has been working with departments to understand their latest financial positions in 2017/18. This includes the identification of reduced requirements and potential reallocations, taking account of pressures that are increasing or have emerged. As a result of this, some £54million of...

The OpenDataNI competition entitled Make-it Challenge has been launched.

Get Online Week 2017 (2 - 8 October) wants to encourage people in the UK who are not making full use of the internet to try one thing online t​hat they would normally do offline. This could be banking or paying a bill online instead...

The department's GoONNI team will be at Ormeau Baths in Belfast this October to offer free internet and device training.

The fifth UK Open Data Camp is to be held in Belfast this October (21 - 22 October 2017) at Queen’s University Belfast, in the Computer Science building.

The Green Flag Award has opened voting for its People's Choice Award to find the UK's top 10 favourite parks.

Time is running out for landlords who want to benefit from an available allowance on their rate bills.

The Department of Finance has announced the appointment of three Non-Executives to its Audit Committees and Board.

We're asking for your help to complete this survey so that we can better understand the wants, needs and satisfaction of Stormont Estate users.

Listen to the Department of Finance's Mark Goodfellow from NICS HR talk to Good Morning Ulster about working for the civil service.

The Central Procurement Directorate (CPD) will be hosting an eTendersNI awareness session this Friday (25 August) for legal services organisations who are planning to tender for the Collaborative Legal Services competition.

The UK government is seeking views on plans to implement the Security of Network and Information Systems Directive ("NIS Directive").

The Stormont Estate has been recognised as one of Northern Ireland's best green spaces with its fourth consecutive Green Flag Award for 2017/2018.