{"id":336904,"date":"2025-08-11T23:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T23:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/336904\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T23:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T23:05:16","slug":"chancellor-rachel-reeves-to-meet-emma-little-pengelly-and-john-odowd-in-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/336904\/","title":{"rendered":"Chancellor Rachel Reeves to meet Emma Little-Pengelly and John O’Dowd in Belfast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chancellor Rachel Reeves will meet Stormont ministers on Tuesday to discuss how to grow Northern Ireland’s economy, as part of her first visit to Belfast.<\/p>\n

She will also visit Studio Ulster, Northern Ireland’s largest film and TV virtual production studio, to look at how government spending is helping the “creative industries”.<\/p>\n

About a third of the funding for the \u00a372m project came from the government’s Belfast Region City Deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Reeves is expected to meet Finance Minister John O’Dowd and Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly during her trip.<\/p>\n

Stormont’s first and deputy first minister met Reeves last September,<\/a> in a bid to lobby for “fairer” funding for public services in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

Since then, the government has faced criticism over its plans and subsequent U-turns on winter fuel payments and changes to welfare reform, both of which would have had significant impacts in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

In the latest government Spending Review in June<\/a>, the chancellor announced a 2% rise in funding for the Stormont Executive for next year.<\/p>\n

But at the time, O’Dowd warned that Stormont would still be left in a “financially constrained position”.<\/p>\n

Reeves is also expected to make a defence visit during her time in Belfast on Tuesday, and highlight how an uplift in defence spending across the UK will support jobs in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chancellor Rachel Reeves will meet Stormont ministers on Tuesday to discuss how to grow Northern Ireland’s economy, as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-336904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115012640660827748","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}