Question to the Northern Ireland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on (a) retaining and (b) ring fencing under the proposed new financial package for the Northern Ireland Executive the funding that was allocated under the previous confidence and supply agreement for the extension of broadband coverage in Northern Ireland.
The Government committed to providing £1bn to Northern Ireland in the Confidence and Supply financial annex. So far in 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20, £763m has been released. The decision to release any further funding will be taken in due course as part of the normal Estimates process, which sets Departments’ budgets and devolved administrations’ block grants for the year