The move could bring in £350m million per year, the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee was told.
Introducing water charges in Northern Ireland would be by far the biggest revenue raiser in the region, a Westminster committee has heard.
He told the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee that while there is “not a great deal of keenness to make that change”, it is “a big number” and “would bring Northern Ireland into line with the situation in the rest of the UK”. It has been estimated that Stormont departments need hundreds of millions of pounds in extra funding to maintain public services at their current level this year, while hundreds of millions more are needed to settle a series of public sector pay disputes in the region.
Giving evidence to the committee on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said other potential ways of raising revenue were “relatively small”.
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