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172366

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2015
	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 why the Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland was involved in all parts of the talks leading to the Stormont House Agreement, contrary to the Belfast Agreement of 1998.
	tabling member printed	Lord Laird
	uin	HL3949
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2015 answer text <p>The Irish Government’s involvement in the talks leading to the Stormont House Agreement was consistent with the well-established three-stranded approach to Northern Ireland affairs.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Randerson question first answered 19/01/2015 12:11:20 answering member 4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson
	tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

173533

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2015
	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 whether their agreement in paragraph 37 of the Stormont House Agreement to "make full disclosure" to the proposed Historical Investigation Unit includes the handing over of all relevant files and documents in the possession of the security services and the Army; what is the current United Kingdom legislation applying to existing bodies that is said to prevent "damaging onward disclosure of information"; and whether they can guarantee, in the particular circumstances of Northern Ireland, that the legislation will meet their duty to keep people safe and secure and will be compliant with Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
	tabling member printed	Lord Laird
	uin	HL4115
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2015 answer text <p>The Stormont House Agreement made clear that the UK Government will make full disclosure of all relevant information held by UK Government departments to the Historical Investigations Unit.</p><p>There are various statutes which contain provisions designed to prevent damaging disclosure of sensitive information. These range from the Official Secrets Act 1989, which applies generally and deals with disclosure of Government information, to other approaches that deal with specific legal processes, such as the Criminal Appeal Act 1995 which governs disclosure of information by the Criminal Cases Review Commission. Appropriate legislation will be drafted to provide for the specific requirements of the Historical Investigations Unit regarding onward disclosure, in line with arrangements for existing bodies and consistent with the Stormont House Agreement.</p><p>The UK Government is committed to ensuring that the right to life (Article 2) is protected and that the Government also fulfils its duty to keep people safe and secure, in Northern Ireland and across the United Kingdom.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Randerson question first answered 23/01/2015 12:59:35 answering member 4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson
	tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

174544

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2015
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Parades: Belfast
	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 15 January (HL3951), what groups supported the setting up of a panel on parading in North Belfast and which groups did not.
	tabling member printed	Lord Laird
	uin	HL4244
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>The SDLP, Sinn Fein and nationalist residents groups had stated publicly that they would not engage with the proposed panel on parading in north Belfast announced by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland on 7th October 2014. Ballysillan LOL 1891 and the West Belfast UPRG also issued statements rejecting the proposed panel.</p><p>Other unionist groupings have indicated that they would have been prepared to support the panel, but only if they had confidence in the panel members appointed.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Randerson question first answered 27/01/2015 16:17:02 answering member 4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson
	tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

174545

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2015
	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, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Randerson on 15 January (HL3950), why she did not answer the question asked; and whether the issue of human rights in the Republic of Ireland was discussed in the talks leading to the Stormont House Agreement.
	tabling member printed	Lord Laird
	uin	HL4245
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>The issues discussed in the recent cross-party talks were selected from a number of topics put forward by the parties represented in the Northern Ireland Executive. The discussions were confidential, but the agreement reached does not touch on human rights in the Republic of Ireland.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Randerson question first answered 27/01/2015 16:17:56 answering member 4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson
	tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

174856

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2015
	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, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Randerson on 19 January (HL3949) concerning the government of the Republic of Ireland and the Stormont House Agreement, on what basis the involvement of the Republic of Ireland is consistent with the three-stranded approach to Northern Ireland affairs; when that approach was established; and in what other talks the government of the Republic of Ireland has been involved under this approach.
	tabling member printed	Lord Laird
	uin	HL4283
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>The three-stranded framework emerged during political negotiations in the 1990s that eventually led to the 1998 Belfast Agreement. Strand One relates to the internal affairs of Northern Ireland, Strand Two deals with relations between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, and Strand Three relations between the UK and Irish Governments. In practice, this has meant the Government of the Republic of Ireland not being involved in negotiations relating to Strand One issues.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Randerson question first answered 27/01/2015 16:19:46 answering member 4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson
	tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

174857

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2015
	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, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Randerson on 19 January (HL3949) concerning the government of the Republic of Ireland and the Stormont House Agreement, whether the government of the Republic of Ireland was involved in all the topics discussed.
	tabling member printed	Lord Laird
	uin	HL4284
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>The Irish Government was not involved in all of the subjects discussed in the cross-party talks that led to the Stormont House Agreement. Its involvement was consistent with the well-established three-stranded approach to Northern Ireland affairs, meaning that the internal arrangements for Northern Ireland are for the UK Government and the Northern Ireland parties alone.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Randerson question first answered 27/01/2015 16:19:04 answering member 4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson
	tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

174858

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2015
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Staff
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many staff were employed in the Northern Ireland Office on 1 January in each of the last ten years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Laird
	uin	HL4285
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>Because of the devolution of policing and justice functions on 12 April 2010, and subsequent reconfiguration of the Northern Ireland Office (NIO), the NIO does not hold figures for the periods prior to 2010; attempting to obtain this information would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p>The figures below are taken from the NIO annual report and accounts for 2010/11 to 2013/14 and show both directly employed and seconded staff working in the core NIO.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Reporting Years</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Directly Employed Staff</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Seconded Staff</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Overall Staff Numbers</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010/11</strong></p></td><td><p>79</p></td><td><p>85</p></td><td><p>164</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p>85</p></td><td><p>69</p></td><td><p>154</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p>93</p></td><td><p>72</p></td><td><p>165</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p>101</p></td><td><p>62</p></td><td><p>163</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015*</strong></p></td><td><p>103</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>133</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>* The 2015 figure is as of 22 January 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Randerson question first answered 27/01/2015 16:18:35 answering member 4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson
	tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

175378

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2015
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Fuels: Tax Evasion
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had with the government of the Republic of Ireland about the risks to health posed by the by products of illegally laundered fuel being dumped into waterways in the border areas; and whether they will put this matter on the agenda for a future meeting of the British–Irish Council.
	tabling member printed	Lord Empey
	uin	HL4381
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2015 answer text <p>Managing the risks posed by the by-products of illegally laundered fuel is a devolved matter for the Northern Ireland Executive. I understand that fuel laundering is regularly on the agenda when the Justice Minister David Ford meets his counterpart in the Republic of Ireland; and that the Minister for the Environment, Mark H. Durkan, regularly discusses waste crime in North South Ministerial Council meetings.</p><p>In related areas, HM Revenue and Customs is active in promoting cross-border co-operation to tackle fuel laundering, including through chairing meetings of the Cross Border Fuel Group, which includes representatives of the PSNI, NCA, Environment Agency and their opposite numbers from the Republic of Ireland.</p><p>The British Irish Council is a forum for co-operation on matters of mutual interest between the eight Member Administrations. It may not therefore be the best means of raising issues which specifically concern only some of those Members. We shall continue, however, to make all the efforts we can to ensure the most effective co-operation on these issues.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Randerson question first answered 05/02/2015 15:45:37 answering member 4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson
	tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

175593

	registered interest
	date	26/01/2015
	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 how many letters of comfort were sent to Sinn Fein politicians for onward delivery to persons believed to be "on the run" within the United Kingdom and outside the United Kingdom.
	tabling member printed	Lord Empey
	uin	HL4436
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2015 answer text <p>The total number of ‘on the runs’ considered by the administrative scheme and the outcome of their cases are set out in some detail in Chapter 7 of the Hallett Report. Lady Justice Hallett found that 156 ‘on the runs’ were sent individual letters between 2000, when the scheme was established by the previous government, and 2012, via Sinn Féin, informing them that they were not wanted.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Randerson question first answered 04/02/2015 15:29:50 answering member 4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson
	tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

175907

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2015
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Human Rights: Republic of Ireland
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they consider that the government of the Republic of Ireland has completed all the actions in favour of human rights assigned to it in the Belfast Agreement of 1998.
	tabling member printed	Lord Laird
	uin	HL4487
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p>The UK and Irish Governments meet regularly both at ministerial and official level to discuss issues of mutual interest and concerns including matters relating to the implementation of the Belfast Agreement in each jurisdiction. There is no formal mechanism in the Belfast Agreement for monitoring the progress of each government other than the British Irish Intergovernmental Conference.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Randerson question first answered 10/02/2015 12:03:15 answering member 4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson
	tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird