Publications

The Minister has published his Tourism Vision & Action Plan which sets out the department’s ambition for growth in our tourism sector over the next 10 years.

Equality screening for the Postgraduate Award (PGA) Scheme

This report presents the department's progress in fulfilling its statutory equality and good relations duties and implementing Equality Scheme commitments and Disability Action Plans. It reflects progress made between April 2021 and March 2022.

This report presents the department's progress in fulfilling its statutory equality and good relations duties and implementing Equality Scheme commitments and Disability Action Plans. It reflects progress made between April 2022 and March 2023

This report presents the department's progress in fulfilling its statutory equality and good relations duties and implementing Equality Scheme commitments and Disability Action Plans. It reflects progress made between April 2023 and March 2024.

This project examines the causes of the gender employment gap and identifies potential policy solutions to closing this gap. It will highlight trends in employment trajectories across women and men and will assess the relationship...

This is the twenty eighth edition of the Energy Strategy ebulletin, which aims to keep stakeholders informed about progress on the new Energy Strategy for Northern Ireland.

This document sets out responses to the Department for the Economy’s public consultation on the future of the Postgraduate Award (PGA) Scheme. The consultation sought views on a number of potential options for change to...

The final report of the taskforce for the expansion of the Derry-Londonderry campus of Ulster University, including an action plan for the delivery of 10,000 students by 2032.

This statistical bulletin presents a range of analysis regarding enrolments and students (both regulated and non-regulated) in the Northern Ireland Further Education Sector covering academic years 2019/20 to 2023/24. The statistics presented cover the characteristics...

Equality screening for the Implementation of Great British Energy Bill in North of Ireland

This plan aims to support growth of the social enterprise sector in Northern Ireland through five key objectives. The department collaborated with key industry stakeholders to co-design actions which address the needs of the sector...

The Department for the Economy commissioned a report to inform the skills and capabilities required to support innovative growth, with a deeper focus on the three priority areas for innovation: accelerating research and development, delivering...

The Department for the Economy provides statistics on the Skills for Life and Work programme in Northern Ireland.

Equality screening for the Amendment of the Industrial Tribunals and Fair Employment Tribunal (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020

Circular Economy Interventions - Research to identify opportunities for effective government interventions towards a more circular economy

Worldskills UK national finals results 2024.

The department monitors recently published relevant research reports and, each quarter, produces a summary in the Research Digests for wider dissemination.

Update on the Northern Ireland Non-Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme

The Tourism Partnership Board was established by the Economy Minister to advise and make recommendations to the Department for the Economy in support of the development and delivery of a Tourism Action Plan.