Business case for the Education Authority considered by the Education Committee

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Our Ref: FoI 25-19

31 October 2019

Freedom of Information Act 2000

I can confirm that the Northern Ireland Assembly Commission holds information relevant to your request of 26 September 2019. In your request you asked for the following information:

"I wish to request under freedom of Information for the final business case for the Education Authority considered by the Education Committee and associated DE papers considered by the committee from 18th February 2015 and 3rd March 2015."

The Information you have requested are available at Appendices A – J.

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• Appendix A - Education Authority Full Business Case (PDF, 89 pages, 1.19MB)
• Appendix B - Education Authority Transition Communications Strategy (PDF, 14 pages, 321KB)
• Appendix C - Education Authority Progress Update (PDF, 2 pages, 117KB)
• Appendix D - Correspondence from Education Minister to the Committee for Education, 11 December 2014 (PDF, 2 pages, 430KB)
• Appendix E - Correpsondence from the Education Departmental Assembly Liaison Officer to the Clerk of the Education Committee, 1 February 2013 (PDF, 4 pages, 1.54MB)
• Appendix F - The establishment of a single Education Authority to replace the 5 ELBs and their Staff Commission - Programme Definition Document (PDF, 33 pages, 502KB)
• Appendix G - Correspondence from the Clerk of the Education Committee to the Education Departmental Liaison Officer, 23 January 2015 (PDF, 2 pages, 291KB)
• Appendix H - Correspondence from Education Minister to the Committee for Education, 8 January 2015 (PDF, 3 pages, 1.65MB)
• Appendix I - Corresponence from Education Minister on the Establishment of an Education Authority 20 November 2014 (PDF, 1 page, 58.6KB)
• Appendix J - Correspondence from Education Minister to the Committee for Education, 17 February 2015 (PDF, 1 page, 177KB)