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518805

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Prime Minister: Ministerial Policy Advisers
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether parity of esteem as established in the Belfast Agreement 1998 applies to people who live in the Republic of Ireland.
	tabling member printed	Lord Laird
	uin	HL99
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2016 answer text <p>This Government understands the concept of parity of esteem, as set out in the 1998 Belfast Agreement, as placing a general obligation on the UK Government to treat people of different traditions in Northern Ireland fairly and with equal respect. In the Agreement it is clearly expressed and defined in relation to people living in Northern Ireland.</p><p>As a general obligation there is no definition of particular circumstances in which it does or does not apply.</p><p> </p><p>As I have set out in previous replies to the Noble Lord, this Government is firm in its commitment to the protection of people against any form of discrimination, and the promotion of opportunity for all, across the whole of our United Kingdom.</p><p> </p><p>In respect of the Noble Lord’s question about those who might march wearing army uniforms but who are not members of an army, the concept of parity of esteem clearly does not absolve people from upholding the law. This Government has made clear many times that we will never accept any form of equivalence between members of the security forces and those who engage in terrorism or other forms of paramilitary activity.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord Dunlop grouped question UIN HL100 HL101 HL102 HL103 HL129 HL131 question first answered 26/05/2016 12:22:50 answering member 4534 label Biography information for Lord Dunlop
	tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

76639

	registered interest
	date	09/07/2014
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Parades: Northern Ireland
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, following the Northern Ireland Parades Commission determination about a parade on 6 July in which the bands were required to play only respectful hymns, whether they will ask that Commission to indicate what hymns it considers respectful; and whether they will ask the Parades Commission to review its communication with parade organisers to ensure its rulings are fully understood.
	tabling member printed	Lord Laird
	uin	HL981
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2014 answer text <p>The detail and communication of determinations are an operational matter for the Parades Commission acting independently of Government. The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland plays no role in that process.</p><p>The Noble Lord may wish to write to the Parades Commission directly on these matters.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Randerson question first answered 23/07/2014 12:18:44 answering member 4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson
	tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

386457

	registered interest
	date	30/06/2015
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Northern Ireland Government
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress has been made in discussions with political parties in Northern Ireland on dealing with the past.
	tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
	uin	HL952
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland held a series of bilateral meetings with all the five parties in the Executive in recent weeks. She also hosted a Stormont House Agreement implementation review meeting with party leaders on 25 June 2015. Following this meeting, an implementation progress report has been published:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/6-month-progress-report-for-stormont-house-agreement" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/6-month-progress-report-for-stormont-house-agreement</a></p><p>The Stormont House Agreement must be delivered in full. The Government continues to make progress on delivering its responsibilities, including bringing forward legislation in the autumn to establish new bodies to deal with the past – the Historical Investigations Unit, the Independent Commission for Information Retrieval and the Oral History Archive.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Dunlop question first answered 13/07/2015 11:06:12 answering member 4534 label Biography information for Lord Dunlop attachment 1 file name STORMONT_HOUSE_AGREEMENT_PROGRESS_REPORT_25_June_2015.pdf title SHA Implementation Progress Report
	tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

386456

	registered interest
	date	30/06/2015
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Foreign Investment in UK: Northern Ireland
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what recent steps they have taken to encourage inward investment in Northern Ireland.
	tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
	uin	HL951
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government works closely with the Executive to attract inward investment to Northern Ireland. The Economic Pact, ‘Building a Prosperous and United Community’ delivered a Northern Ireland International Investment Conference at which the Prime Minister made the keynote address; the first ever joint UK-Irish trade mission with ministers from London, Belfast and Dublin; and corporation tax legislation which completed its Parliamentary stages and became law just before the General Election.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Dunlop question first answered 14/07/2015 11:26:33 answering member 4534 label Biography information for Lord Dunlop
	tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

76583

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2014
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Terrorism: Northern Ireland
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Randerson on 7 July (WA 16) concerning the release of prisoners in Northern Ireland as a result of the Belfast Agreement of 1998, why the records of those released were not already available in a consolidated form.
	tabling member printed	Lord Laird
	uin	HL927
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Following the devolution of policing and justice powers in April 2010, records received from the Northern Ireland Prison Service (NIPS) at that time were not in a consolidated format. As the previous response indicates, NIO officials are now undertaking a consolidation exercise in conjunction with the NIPS.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Randerson question first answered 14/07/2014 14:50:58 answering member 4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson
	tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

76582

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2014
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Parades Commission
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much the Northern Ireland Parades Commission cost in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Laird
	uin	HL926
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Information relating to the cost of the Northern Ireland Parades Commission and remuneration of Commission members and chair is published in the Commission's Annual Report and Accounts, copies of which can be found at:</p><p><a href="http://www.paradescommission.org/Resources.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.paradescommission.org/Resources.aspx</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Randerson grouped question UIN HL924 HL925 question first answered 14/07/2014 14:50:31 answering member 4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson
	tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

76581

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2014
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Parades Commission
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the salary of, and what other payments are made to, members of the Northern Ireland Parades Commission.
	tabling member printed	Lord Laird
	uin	HL925
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Information relating to the cost of the Northern Ireland Parades Commission and remuneration of Commission members and chair is published in the Commission's Annual Report and Accounts, copies of which can be found at:</p><p><a href="http://www.paradescommission.org/Resources.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.paradescommission.org/Resources.aspx</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Randerson grouped question UIN HL924 HL926 question first answered 14/07/2014 14:50:30 answering member 4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson
	tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

76580

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2014
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Parades Commission
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the salary of, and what other payments are made to, the chairman of the Northern Ireland Parades Commission.
	tabling member printed	Lord Laird
	uin	HL924
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Information relating to the cost of the Northern Ireland Parades Commission and remuneration of Commission members and chair is published in the Commission's Annual Report and Accounts, copies of which can be found at:</p><p><a href="http://www.paradescommission.org/Resources.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.paradescommission.org/Resources.aspx</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Randerson grouped question UIN HL925 HL926 question first answered 14/07/2014 14:50:29 answering member 4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson
	tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

58564

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2014
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Parades: Northern Ireland
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have held talks with the Parades Commission for Northern Ireland, the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Justice Minister about the forthcoming parading season in Northern Ireland; when any such meetings occurred; and who was present at those meetings.
	tabling member printed	Lord Empey
	uin	HL89
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland met the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, the Chair of the Parades Commission for Northern Ireland and the Minister for Justice for Northern Ireland on Wednesday, 14 May 2014.</p><p>Also in attendance at this meeting were senior officials from the Northern Ireland Office and Department of Justice along with members of the PSNI Service Executive Team and the Secretariat of the Parades Commission.</p><p>This meeting provided participants with an opportunity to exchange general views on the parading season in Northern Ireland. No decisions were taken at this meeting and there were no discussions about operational matters relating to specific parades.</p> answering member printed Baroness Randerson question first answered 10/06/2014 14:33:44 answering member 4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson
	tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

385717

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2015
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Stormont House Agreement
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they intend to introduce legislation to implement the Stormont House Agreement.
	tabling member printed	Lord Empey
	uin	HL841
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2015 answer text <p>As set out in the Queen’s Speech, the Government is committed to bringing forward legislation in this session to give effect to the Stormont House Agreement in Northern Ireland. The Northern Ireland (Stormont House Agreement) Bill will make provision for an independent Historical Investigations Unit, an Oral History Archive, and the Independent Commission on Information Retrieval – a new body to be established by an international agreement between the UK Government and Irish Government.</p><p>The Bill will be introduced as soon as the Parliamentary timetable allows.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Dunlop question first answered 02/07/2015 11:31:21 answering member 4534 label Biography information for Lord Dunlop
	tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey