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1171023

registered interest
date	15/01/2020
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Borders: Ireland (Island)
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what discussions he has had with the Northern Ireland Executive on the introduction of border checks on the island of Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	3890
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2020 answer text <p>It is excellent news that the Northern Ireland Executive has been restored and that Stormont is once again up and running. I look forward to working with the Executive in the next phase of negotiations, including work with the UK-EU Joint Committee.</p><p>The Withdrawal Agreement achieves the common aim of avoiding a hard border on the island of Ireland: there will be no border checks on the land border. Movement between Northern Ireland and Great Britain is within the UK. This Government has been clear on its commitment to ensuring that Northern Ireland remains an integral part of the UK internal market. As set out in the agreed New Decade, New Approach deal, the Government will legislate to guarantee unfettered access for Northern Ireland’s businesses to the whole of the UK internal market, and ensure that this legislation is in force for 01 January 2021.</p> answering member constituency Skipton and Ripon answering member printed Julian Smith question first answered 24/01/2020 12:01:18 answering member 4118 label Biography information for Julian Smith
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1149898

registered interest
date	16/10/2019
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	British Nationality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the statement by the Irish Taoiseach on 15 October 2019 that British citizenship laws are out of step with the Good Friday Agreement.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	1087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2019 answer text <p>The Government remains firmly committed to upholding the Belfast Agreement and the rights it protects, including the birthright of all the people of Northern Ireland to identify themselves and be accepted as Irish or British or both, and the right to hold both British and Irish citizenship.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Skipton and Ripon answering member printed Julian Smith question first answered 24/10/2019 11:03:44 answering member 4118 label Biography information for Julian Smith
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1149905

registered interest
date	16/10/2019
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect of the supply and confidence agreement arrangement between the Government and the Democratic Unionist Party on the Government's discussions with other political parties in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	1090
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2019 answer text <p>The political talks with the Northern Ireland parties on restoring devolution are, quite rightly, handled separately from any confidence and supply discussions with our partners in the DUP.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Skipton and Ripon answering member printed Julian Smith question first answered 25/10/2019 13:51:47 answering member 4118 label Biography information for Julian Smith
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1149907

registered interest
date	16/10/2019
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Social Democratic & Labour Party
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he last met the leadership of the Social Democratic and Labour Party.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	1092
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2019 answer text <p>I last spoke to the leadership of the SDLP on 17 October.</p> answering member constituency Skipton and Ripon answering member printed Julian Smith question first answered 25/10/2019 09:47:34 answering member 4118 label Biography information for Julian Smith
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1149908

registered interest
date	16/10/2019
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Sinn Féin
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he last met the leadership of Sinn Fein.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	1093
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2019 answer text <p>I last spoke to the leadership of Sinn Fein on 23 October.</p> answering member constituency Skipton and Ripon answering member printed Julian Smith question first answered 25/10/2019 09:48:53 answering member 4118 label Biography information for Julian Smith
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1149909

registered interest
date	16/10/2019
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Alliance Party
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he last met the leadership of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	1094
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2019 answer text <p>I last spoke to the leadership of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland on 25 October<strong><em>.</em></strong></p> answering member constituency Skipton and Ripon answering member printed Julian Smith question first answered 25/10/2019 09:49:32 answering member 4118 label Biography information for Julian Smith
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1149910

registered interest
date	16/10/2019
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 Green Party
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he last met the leadership of the Green Party of Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	1095
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2019 answer text <p>I last spoke to the leadership of the Green Party of Northern Ireland on 25 October.</p> answering member constituency Skipton and Ripon answering member printed Julian Smith question first answered 25/10/2019 09:50:07 answering member 4118 label Biography information for Julian Smith
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1149911

registered interest
date	16/10/2019
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Ulster Unionist Party
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he last met the leadership of the Ulster Unionist party.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	1096
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2019 answer text <p>I last spoke to the leadership of the Ulster Unionist party on 17 October.</p> answering member constituency Skipton and Ripon answering member printed Julian Smith question first answered 25/10/2019 09:50:40 answering member 4118 label Biography information for Julian Smith
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1149913

registered interest
date	16/10/2019
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Abortion and Marriage: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to (a) reform abortion laws and (b) extend same-sex marriage to Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	1097
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2019 answer text <p>The Government plans to have regulations in place on abortion law and same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland by the dates stipulated in the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc.) Act 2019. Given the Northern Ireland Executive was not restored by 21 October 2019, the Government is therefore under a legal duty to comply with sections 8 and 9 of the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc.) Act 2019 to:</p><p> </p><p>a) bring forward regulations to enable same-sex marriage and opposite-sex civil partnerships in Northern Ireland by 13 January 2020; and</p><p> </p><p>b) bring forward regulations for a new legal framework for abortion to be in place in Northern Ireland by 31 March 2020.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Skipton and Ripon answering member printed Julian Smith question first answered 24/10/2019 11:30:51 answering member 4118 label Biography information for Julian Smith
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1149914

registered interest
date	16/10/2019
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Army: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether he has met with the (a) families of the victims of (i) the events in Ballymurphy in August 1971 and (ii) Bloody Sunday and (b) other victims’ families and groups, to discuss proposals for a statute of limitations.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	1098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2019 answer text <p>It would not be appropriate to discuss particular incidents whilst legal proceedings are ongoing. However, the views of victims groups and families on how to address the legacy of Northern Ireland's past have been sought with many of the 17,000 responses received from individuals whose lives have been touched by the Troubles. Ministers in the Northern Ireland Office have also recently met with a number of victims and victims groups to discuss these issues.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Skipton and Ripon answering member printed Julian Smith question first answered 25/10/2019 13:53:40 answering member 4118 label Biography information for Julian Smith
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones