To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing additional funding to the Northern Ireland Strategic Migration Partnership to support the resumption of its operations that ceased in April 2022.
Answered on
18 October 2022
The Home Office is currently reviewing options for the future funding of the Strategic Migration Partnership (SMP) in Northern Ireland.
We are reviewing options which consider the various funding streams in Northern Ireland that elsewhere in the UK are managed under a single grant agreement with the SMPs, with the aim of implementing a new system that brings together these funding streams in a more cohesive way, allowing for greater joined-up working across Northern Ireland.