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1176491

registered interest
date	05/02/2020
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Life Imprisonment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate he has made of the number of life prisoners licences revoked under Section 9 of the Life Sentences (NI) Order 2001 in each year since 2001.
tabling member constituency	Belfast East
tabling member printed	Gavin Robinson
uin	13025
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2020 answer text <p>Since the devolution of policing and justice to the Northern Ireland Executive in 2010, the recall of individuals released on a life licence, further to Section 9 of the Life Sentences (NI) Order 2001, has been a matter for the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland, except where this relates to national security. The Department of Justice shall be able to provide details relating to the number of licences revoked.</p> answering member constituency Skipton and Ripon answering member printed Julian Smith question first answered 10/02/2020 17:46:11 answering member 4118 label Biography information for Julian Smith
tabling member	4360 label Biography information for Gavin Robinson

1176492

registered interest
date	05/02/2020
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Prison Sentences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate he has made of the number of licences revoked under Section 8 of the Northern Ireland (Sentences) Act 1998 in each year since1998.
tabling member constituency	Belfast East
tabling member printed	Gavin Robinson
uin	13026
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2020 answer text <p>Section 8 of the NI (Sentences) Act 1998 relates to the revocation of a declaration by the Sentence Review Commissioners that a prisoner is eligible for release. To date, two declarations have been revoked under this provision since 1998.</p> answering member constituency Skipton and Ripon answering member printed Julian Smith question first answered 10/02/2020 17:46:54 answering member 4118 label Biography information for Julian Smith
tabling member	4360 label Biography information for Gavin Robinson

1176567

registered interest
date	05/02/2020
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the Government's policy is on the legacy aspects of the Stormont House Agreement.
tabling member constituency	North Down
tabling member printed	Stephen Farry
uin	13078
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to reforming the current legacy system in Northern Ireland in a way which provides reconciliation for victims and greater certainty for veterans. The Government will be working to develop proposals in the coming weeks.</p> answering member constituency Skipton and Ripon answering member printed Julian Smith question first answered 11/02/2020 10:27:32 answering member 4118 label Biography information for Julian Smith
tabling member	4856 label Biography information for Stephen Farry

1175605

registered interest
date	03/02/2020
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Capital Investment: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Answer of 24 January 2020 to Question 5511, when he plans to publish the membership of the UK Government-Northern Ireland Executive joint board.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	11589
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2020 answer text <p>A new UK Government - Northern Ireland Executive joint board will be established, convened by myself, to oversee implementation of the New Decade, New Approach agreement.</p><p> </p><p>This Board will include myself, the First Minister and deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland and is expected to meet in the first quarter of this year.</p><p> </p><p>The Joint Board would have as part of its Terms of Reference in particular the oversight of transformation efforts in health, education and justice where these would draw on funding under this agreement.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Skipton and Ripon answering member printed Julian Smith question first answered 11/02/2020 10:26:20 answering member 4118 label Biography information for Julian Smith
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1175607

registered interest
date	03/02/2020
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Capital Investment: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Answer of 24 January 2020 to Question 5512 on Capital Investment: Northern Ireland, if he will publish an explanatory memorandum on the conditions that accompany the financial package.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	11591
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2020 answer text <p>The conditions that accompany the financial package have been published in the New Decade, New Approach agreement, Annex A.</p><p>This funding package is accompanied by a number of conditions designed to ensure that UK Government funding contributes to increasing overall fiscal and budgetary sustainability in Northern Ireland’s public finances.</p> answering member constituency Skipton and Ripon answering member printed Julian Smith question first answered 06/02/2020 16:14:18 answering member 4118 label Biography information for Julian Smith
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1174996

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Reviews
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will publish the titles of the reviews that his Department is undertaking.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
uin	10315
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2020 answer text <p>My Department is not currently undertaking any public reviews.</p> answering member constituency Skipton and Ripon answering member printed Julian Smith question first answered 05/02/2020 10:40:47 answering member 4118 label Biography information for Julian Smith
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1174222

registered interest
date	29/01/2020
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what proportion of the staff employed by her Department are apprentices.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	9743
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government expects to train up hundreds of thousands more highly skilled apprentices during this Parliament and government departments all have a role to play in this.</p><p> </p><p>Data regarding the number of apprentices in each Government Department is published yearly as part of routine Government transparency. The most recent report was published in September, covering the 2018-2019 financial year, and can be found on GOV.UK:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-apprenticeship-data-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-apprenticeship-data-2018-to-2019</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Skipton and Ripon answering member printed Julian Smith question first answered 03/02/2020 17:46:22 answering member 4118 label Biography information for Julian Smith
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1173870

registered interest
date	28/01/2020
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Terrorism: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent estimate he has made of the annual cost to the public purse of the Historical Investigations Unit from its establishment until the conclusion of that unit's work; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	8944
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to reforming the current legacy system in Northern Ireland in a way that provides reconciliation for victims and certainty for veterans. The Government will be working to develop proposals in the coming weeks.</p> answering member constituency Skipton and Ripon answering member printed Julian Smith question first answered 03/02/2020 17:45:29 answering member 4118 label Biography information for Julian Smith
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

1173196

registered interest
date	24/01/2020
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Veterans: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Prime Minister's oral contribution of 15 January 2020, Official Report, column 1020, what the Government's definition is of vexatious prosecutions; and how legislative proposals will prevent vexatious or unfair prosecutions of veterans who served in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Rochdale
tabling member printed	Tony Lloyd
uin	7592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to reforming the current legacy system in Northern Ireland in a way which provides reconciliation for victims and greater certainty for veterans. Nobody who has served in our armed forces should be subject to unfair prosecution in cases where no new evidence has been provided.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Skipton and Ripon answering member printed Julian Smith question first answered 29/01/2020 18:00:19 answering member 4118 label Biography information for Julian Smith
tabling member	450 label Biography information for Tony Lloyd

1172682

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Nationality: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how a citizen of Northern Ireland can legally express their right under the Good Friday Agreement to identify as (a) Irish, (b) British and (c) both.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South
tabling member printed	Claire Hanna
uin	6771
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 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, as they may so choose, and the right to hold both British and Irish citizenship. In line with this commitment, the people of Northern Ireland are legally able to hold Irish or British citizenship or both. Further, their right to identify as Irish, British or both is facilitated by the Common Travel Area arrangements, under which the people of Northern Ireland are not required to assert and choose a specific citizenship or identity in order to live, work, study and access public services and other entitlements in the UK.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Skipton and Ripon answering member printed Julian Smith question first answered 28/01/2020 15:44:59 answering member 4118 label Biography information for Julian Smith
tabling member	4827 label Biography information for Claire Hanna