To ask the Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Investment to outline the financial support planned in the next budgetary period for Carrickfergus Enterprise and Larne Enterprise and Development Company.

My Department and Invest NI work closely with Enterprise NI and their members, including Carrickfergus and Larne Enterprise Development Company, both as deliverers of programmes under procured contracts and local stakeholders in the enterprise arena. These organisations are commercial entities and generate income from contracts they deliver, won through a competitive tendering process, on behalf of government departments and other customers. There are, therefore, no plans to provide direct financial support to either Carrickfergus Enterprise or Larne Enterprise and Development Company.