AQO 3398/11-15 Oral question to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
To ask the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development to outline the scores achieved against the defined set of criteria by the 23 local government districts for the relocation of her Department's headquarters.
Asked by Stewart Dickson MLA on 31 January 2013
- Answered
- Oral
- Tabled
- 31 January 2013
- Answer due by
- 12 February 2013
- Answered
- 12 February 201312 days after tabling
- Priority question
- No
Answer
The process for identifying appropriate locations for my new headquarters was done in two stages – the first stage identified the 23 local government districts highlighted in the Spatial Framework of the Regional Development Strategy. These 23 areas were then scored against a set of 9 bespoke criteria. The scores for each of the 23 locations are as follows:-
Score of the 23 Potential Locations
| Location | Score | Location | Score | |
| Antrim | 30 | Down | 53 | |
| Ards | 50 | Dungannon | 49 | |
| Armagh | 44 | Fermanagh | 41 | |
| Ballymena | 35 | Larne | 45 | |
| Banbridge | 57 | Limavady | 59 | |
| Belfast | 34 | Lisburn | 24 | |
| Carrickfergus | 17 | Newry & Mourne | 56 | |
| Castlereagh | 20 | Newtownabbey | 21 | |
| Coleraine | 37 | North Down | 23 | |
| Cookstown | 53 | Omagh | 42 | |
| Craigavon | 49 | Strabane | 73 | |
| Derry | 51 |