Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether any aspects of the current INTERREG VA Programme which support cross border environmental activities will be replicated in the new PEACE programme for Northern Ireland and the Border Counties of the Republic of Ireland.

The Government has committed around £300 million to PEACE Plus between 2021 and 2027 to uphold peace, cooperation and reconciliation in Northern Ireland.

PEACE Plus will succeed the current PEACE IV and INTERREG VA schemes which have helped promote economic and social progress in Northern Ireland and the border region of Ireland and which will end in 2020.

Thematic priorities and future activities have not yet been decided.