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426342

registered interest
date	04/11/2015
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Education: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what discussions she has had with the Northern Ireland Executive on further plans to increase the provision of shared and integrated education.
tabling member constituency	South Antrim
tabling member printed	Danny Kinahan
uin	14784
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2015 answer text <p>The Government communicates with the Northern Ireland Executive frequently on a wide range of issues.</p><p>As part of ‘<em>Building a Prosperous and United Community’, </em>the ‘economic pact’, the Government committed to provide £100 million of additional borrowing to help support specific shared housing and education projects.</p><p>Through the Stormont House Agreement the Government committed to make substantial capital funding available, up to £500 million over 10 years, to help support shared and integrated education in Northern Ireland. This funding is subject to the full implementation of the Stormont House Agreement and individual projects being agreed between the Executive and the Government.</p><br /> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace grouped question UIN 14785 question first answered 10/11/2015 13:03:42 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4381 label Biography information for Danny Kinahan

426343

registered interest
date	04/11/2015
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Schools: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what discussions she has had with the Northern Ireland Executive on ensuring that as many schools as possible receive Shared Education Signature Project funding.
tabling member constituency	South Antrim
tabling member printed	Danny Kinahan
uin	14785
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2015 answer text <p>The Government communicates with the Northern Ireland Executive frequently on a wide range of issues.</p><p>As part of ‘<em>Building a Prosperous and United Community’, </em>the ‘economic pact’, the Government committed to provide £100 million of additional borrowing to help support specific shared housing and education projects.</p><p>Through the Stormont House Agreement the Government committed to make substantial capital funding available, up to £500 million over 10 years, to help support shared and integrated education in Northern Ireland. This funding is subject to the full implementation of the Stormont House Agreement and individual projects being agreed between the Executive and the Government.</p><br /> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace grouped question UIN 14784 question first answered 10/11/2015 13:03:42 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4381 label Biography information for Danny Kinahan

425463

registered interest
date	02/11/2015
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 Office: Stationery
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate she has made of the value of stationery that has been (a) lost and (b) stolen from her Department in each of the last five fiscal years; and what the cost was of replacing such stationery.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	14374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2015 answer text <p>There has been no stationery reported lost or stolen in my Department during the period requested.</p><br /> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 04/11/2015 15:30:58 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

424472

registered interest
date	28/10/2015
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Electoral Register: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many and what proportion of (a) 18 and (b) 19 year-olds in Northern Ireland were registered to vote on 30 June 2014; what the average number was of 18 and 19 year-olds in Northern Ireland so registered as a proportion of the mid-year population estimate made by the Office for National Statistics for 2014; and how that figure differs from (i) Electoral Commission and (ii) Cabinet Office estimates of the number of registered 18 and 19 year-olds in (A) Northern Ireland and (B) Great Britain in 2014.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Mr Graham Allen
uin	13739
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>On 30 June 2014, the Electoral Office for Northern Ireland had (a) 19,361 18 year olds and (b) 20,746 19 year olds registered to vote. Drawing on the mid-year population estimate for 2014 published by the Office for National Statistics, this would represent 82.8% of 18-19 year olds in Northern Ireland.</p><p>The Electoral Commission last assessed the completeness of the Northern Ireland electoral register in 2012 when survey sampling estimated that 51% of 18-19 year olds were registered to vote. An Electoral Commission report on the quality of the 2014 electoral registers in Great Britain assessed that 76% of 18-19 year olds were registered to vote.</p><p>The Cabinet Office has not made a separate assessment of the number of 18 and 19 year olds registered in either Great Britain or Northern Ireland in this period.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 05/11/2015 13:07:45 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	364 label Biography information for Mr Graham Allen

424658

registered interest
date	28/10/2015
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 Office: Trade Unions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many civil servants in her Department are members of trades unions; how much working hours facility time is claimed by each such civil servant; and what the cost of that facility time is to her Department.
tabling member constituency	Corby
tabling member printed	Tom Pursglove
uin	13906
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <p>My Department does not hold records on the number of staff who are members of a trades union as this is a matter for the individual.</p><p>Facilities time is made available to the union representatives in the Northern Ireland Office. During the last quarter for which figures are available they used a total of two hours for meetings at a cost to the Department of approximately £37.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 03/11/2015 15:39:28 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove

424659

registered interest
date	28/10/2015
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	IRA
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to paragraph 13 of the report commissioned by her Department on Paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland, published 19 October 2015, what assessment she has made of the extent to which the IRA's Provisional Army Council oversees the Provisional IRA and Sinn Fein with an overarching strategy.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
uin	13829
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <p>Further analysis of intelligence and actions relating as a consequence of the recent report is a matter for the Security Services and the Police. Ministers do not interfere with such operational decisions nor is it the policy of Her Majesty’s Government to comment publicly on such intelligence matters.</p><br /> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 03/11/2015 13:13:47 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace previous answer version 27249 answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

424660

registered interest
date	28/10/2015
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Police: Complaints
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will take steps to enable the Government to direct the Police Ombudsman of Northern Ireland to investigate a complaint from a former police officer where matters giving rise to the complaint took place more than 12 months ago and there are exceptional circumstances which justify such an investigation being held.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	13759
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2015 answer text <p>The RUC (Complaints etc) Regulations 2001 allow the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland to investigate complaints into matters which took place more than 12 months ago in exceptional circumstances, for example when new evidence has come to light which was not reasonably available at the time of an original complaint.</p><p>The Police Ombudsman is accountable to the Northern Ireland Assembly, through the Minister of Justice for Northern Ireland.</p><br /> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 02/11/2015 16:39:24 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

424356

registered interest
date	27/10/2015
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps she is taking to ensure that discussions on the Stormont House Agreement include tax credits.
tabling member constituency	South Antrim
tabling member printed	Danny Kinahan
uin	13590
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2015 answer text <p>A range of issues are under discussion in the cross-party talks. These include welfare reform, the Executive’s budget and delivering longer term economic reform. The Government is committed to its long-term economic plan, key elements of which are tackling the deficit, making the costs of welfare sustainable and getting more people into work.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 30/10/2015 11:22:42 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4381 label Biography information for Danny Kinahan

423770

registered interest
date	26/10/2015
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 Office: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much was paid in (a) year-end and (b) in-year bonuses to officials of her Department in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	13358
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2015 answer text <p>In the last three financial years my Department paid officials the following amounts for year-end and in-year bonuses:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>In-Year Bonuses (£)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Year-End Bonuses (£)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p>22,100</p></td><td><p>35,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p>32,150</p></td><td><p>31,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p>22,710</p></td><td><p>25,600</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Non-consolidated performance related pay is only paid to reward excellence, for example to recognise and incentivise those responsible for delivering high quality public services and savings to the taxpayer. These one-off payments are not pensionable. Since 2010-11, the Government has restricted awards for senior civil servants to the top 25% of performers (from 65% in previous years), saving around £15 million overall.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 30/10/2015 11:21:04 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

423853

registered interest
date	26/10/2015
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 Office: Credit Unions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps she is taking to promote the use of credit unions in the work of her Department; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	13520
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon Member to the answer given by my hon Friend, the Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Harriett Baldwin) on 2 November 2015.</p><p>Credit unions are a devolved matter in Northern Ireland and responsibility for them rests with the Northern Ireland Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 03/11/2015 15:36:47 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas