Department for Communities

Department for Communities
Department overview
FormedMay 2016
Preceding agencies
  • Department for Social Development
  • Department for Employment and Learning
  • Department of the Environment
  • Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure
JurisdictionNorthern Ireland
HeadquartersCauseway Exchange, 1-7 Bedford Street, Belfast, County Antrim, BT2 7EG
Employees7,452 (September 2011)
Annual budget£505.4 million (current) & £161.6 million (capital) for 2011–12
Minister responsible
Department executive
  • Colum Boyle, Permanent Secretary
Websitewww.communities-ni.gov.uk

The Department for Communities (DfC, Irish: An Roinn Pobal; Ulster Scots: Depairtment fur Commonities) is a devolved Northern Ireland government department in the Northern Ireland Executive. The minister with overall responsibility for the department is the Minister for Communities. The department was previously created in May 2016 following the Fresh Start Agreement and the dissolution of several departments, such as the Department for Social Development, the Department of the Environment, the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure and the Department for Employment and Learning from which several functions have amalgamated.

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