£600m Stormont budget black hole 'to swell by hundreds of millions'

A £600m (€858735650) black hole in Northern Ireland’s budget is set to increase by “hundreds of millions of pounds” with the latest round of welfare reforms at Westminster, Stormont’s Finance minister has warned.

Arlene Foster said the financial consequences of the UK Government’s further changes to the benefits system reinforced the need for the powersharing administration in Belfast to finally resolve its long-running impasse over welfare.