The UK Government will provide £50m towards the redevelopment of Casement Park, the Chancellor announced on Wednesday as part of the 2025 spending review. However, there is still a funding shortfall of around £90m.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced that the Northern Ireland Executive is to receive an additional £1.5 billion for next year’s budget, bringing the total to £18.2 billion for 2025/26 – “the largest in real terms in the history of devolution” according to NI Secretary Hilary Benn.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, will announce her budget on Wednesday in the House of Commons – the first since Labour’s landslide victory in this year’s general election.
After the UK government’s decision to pause funding for city and growth deals until the spending review, Executive ministers have said they are “gravely concernced”, with Michelle O’Neill branding it as “unacceptable and deplorable”.
