Stormont: health and education services to benefit from multi-million pound cash boost

The health and education services in Northern Ireland are the big winners from the latest Stormont monitoring round.

Ministers agreed to distribute £300m across the Executive departments - with £122m going to health and £43.7m allocated to the Department of Education.

The allocation is made up of £250m of resource spend and £50m of capital money.

Finance minister Caoimhe Archibald announced the outcome of the exercise in the Assembly on Monday.

An outstanding pay settlement for non-teaching educational support workers will be funded from education's £43.7m.

The department will receive a further £44.5 million, £29.5 million to address pressures in the education system and £15 million for capital works to improve the school estate.

A total of £35 million is being given to the Department for Justice while the Department for Communities has been allocated £20 million for new build social housing and £10 million for safe cladding works.

The Department for Communities will get a further £10m for discretionary support, which helps people with help with short term living expenses, and its Supporting People programme, as well as for homelessness interventions.