Economic Situation: Northern Ireland
(asked on 5th September 2017) - View Source
Question to the Northern Ireland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent assessment he has made of the performance of the Northern Ireland economy.
This question was answered on 13th September 2017
The fundamentals of the Northern Ireland economy remain strong, with growth last year at 1.6%.
Economic activity is up, unemployment has fallen to levels not seen since before the Great Recession of 2008, and 43,000 more people are in work compared to 2010.