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Stormont Budget: UUP to vote against NI spending plan

When the budget was announced, Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly, of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), said she understood Mr Swann’s concerns, but that there were other important priorities which required funding such as special educational needs.

There will be an additional £200m for the finance minister to distribute in a re-allocation exercise known as the June monitoring round.

That includes some money carried over from last year, additional money from Westminster and the start of a new ‘top-up’ procedure for Stormont’s budget which was agreed with the UK government.

The UUP leader Doug Beattie had wanted the budget debate to be postponed until after the monitoring round.

He said it had “the potential to ease some of the pressures we have highlighted in the existing health allocation”, adding that it “makes no sense for the Executive and Assembly to pass a budget that is almost certain to change within weeks”.


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