Department for Employment and Learning

The Department for Employment and Learning (DEL), (Irish: An Roinn Fostaíochta agus Foghlama; Ulster Scots: Depairtment for Employ an Learnin), was a devolved Northern Ireland government department in the Northern Ireland Executive. The minister with overall responsibility for the department was the Minister for Employment and Learning. The department was initially known as the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment (DHFETE), between 1999 and 2001.

Department for Employment and Learning
An Roinn Fostaíochta agus Foghlama; Ulster Scots: Depairtment for Employ an Learnin
Department overview
FormedDecember 1999 (as Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment)
Preceding Department
  • Department of Economic Development & Department of Education
Dissolved6 May 2016
Superseding agency
JurisdictionNorthern Ireland
HeadquartersAdelaide House, 39–49 Adelaide Street, Belfast, BT2 8FD
Employees2,111 (September 2011)
Annual budget£787.3 million (current) & £41.2 million (capital) for 2011–12
Websitewww.delni.gov.uk

Following the Fresh Start Agreement of November 2015, DEL was dissolved and its functions transferred to the Department for the Economy and Department for Communities, in order to reduce the size of the Northern Ireland Executive.

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