Terrorism: Northern Ireland
(asked on 24th June 2025) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle paramilitarism.
This question was answered on 1st July 2025
The work to tackle paramilitarism in Northern Ireland is led by the Northern Ireland Executive and delivered through the Executive Programme on Paramilitarism and Organised Crime.
The UK Government provides 50% of the funding for the cross-Executive Programme: currently £8m per year. As announced in the Spending Review, a further £8m has been secured for the period from April 2026 to March 2027. The allocation of funding across the Programme is a matter for the Executive and the Programme Sponsor Group.