Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many applications for EU State Aid approval have been made in respect of Northern Ireland since February 2023.

The Government has notified three measures to the European Commission for approval with respect to Northern Ireland since February 2023. Two of these schemes have been or will be applied UK-wide. The third is a Northern Ireland agricultural subsidy scheme, resulting from the benefit and freedom of no longer being part of the Common Agricultural Policy.