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1108692

registered interest
date	01/04/2019
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Welfare State: 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 her Department has had with officials in the Department for Work and Pensions on the extension of mitigation payments on welfare reform in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	239218
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2019 answer text <p>Following the Fresh Start Agreement, funding was made available by the Executive to mitigate the impact of welfare reform in Northern Ireland. This funding ends in March 2020.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Communities in Northern Ireland is responsible for the delivery of the various mitigation schemes relating to welfare reform in Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p><p>A decision to extend mitigations beyond March 2020 would be a matter for the Northern Ireland Civil Service and not the Department for Work and Pensions.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 03/04/2019 14:11:53 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

1107758

registered interest
date	29/03/2019
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 Office: Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many consultants her department has hired since 2016; and what cost to the public purse has been of such consultants.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	238648
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information on the number of consultants hired in any one year as this work is often commissioned as part of an outcomes based contract to ensure value for money.</p><p>The amount spent on consultants each year since 2016 is:</p><p><strong>2016-17</strong> - £ 5,000</p><p><strong>2017-18</strong> - £ 79,600</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 03/04/2019 12:20:11 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

1105531

registered interest
date	27/03/2019
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Licensing Laws: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether in the absence of the Northern Ireland Assembly she plans to bring forward legislative proposals on amending the sale and supply of alcoholic drinks at special events in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	237725
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>As your question implies, liquor licensing is a devolved matter. The Department for Communities, the Northern Ireland Department with responsibility for this issue, recently launched a public consultation on the sale and supply of alcoholic drinks at special events. The consultation runs until 3 May and the Department for Communities will consider the way forward following analysis of responses.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 02/04/2019 11:07:26 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1105548

registered interest
date	27/03/2019
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 Housing Executive
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment she has made of the long term financial viability of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	237730
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Communities in Northern Ireland sponsors the Northern Ireland Housing Executive. It is Northern Ireland’s largest social landlord and provides 86,000 social homes. This is 1 in 9 of all homes in Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p><p>I am aware that officials in the Department for Communities have carried out work to assess the financial requirements of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive. Any changes in response to this assessment are rightly the responsibility of the devolved Stormont Assembly and Executive. In the absence of an Executive, this is a matter for the Permanent Secretary of the Department within the limits of the EFEF Act.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 01/04/2019 11:02:16 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1105683

registered interest
date	27/03/2019
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 Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will re-examine the estimated £1.3 billion cost of the Northern Ireland Renewable Heat Incentive scheme to the public purse over a 20 year period; how that figure was calculated; whether it was inflated; and if so, why.
tabling member printed	Lord Maginnis of Drumglass
uin	HL14865
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department for the Economy (DfE) delivers the Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme in Northern Ireland. The £1.3bn figure was the DfE estimate assuming a scenario of the original 2012 tariffs remaining unchanged. It is of course now no longer relevant as these tariffs no longer apply.</p><p> </p><p>On the combining of Rates and RHI into one Bill; Parliamentary Counsel advised last year that this was an appropriate pairing for these measures. Given the current pressures on Parliamentary time, and the limit on available legislative slots, we adopted exactly the same approach this year.</p><p> </p><p>I welcome the commitment made by the Department for the Economy to appoint an independent chair to examine the cases of individuals who received funds from the RHI initiative and believe they have experienced hardship. The appointment of the Chair is a matter for that Department, but we will continue to work closely with DfE on this important matter.</p> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank grouped question UIN HL14866 HL14867 question first answered 02/04/2019 12:43:14 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank
tabling member	648 label Biography information for Lord Maginnis of Drumglass

1105685

registered interest
date	27/03/2019
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 (Regional Rates and Energy) Act 2019
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government why they combined the collection of regional rates in Northern Ireland and the administration of the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme under the Northern Ireland (Regional Rates and Energy) Act 2019; and whether the Northern Ireland Office or the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland was responsible for that decision.
tabling member printed	Lord Maginnis of Drumglass
uin	HL14866
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department for the Economy (DfE) delivers the Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme in Northern Ireland. The £1.3bn figure was the DfE estimate assuming a scenario of the original 2012 tariffs remaining unchanged. It is of course now no longer relevant as these tariffs no longer apply.</p><p> </p><p>On the combining of Rates and RHI into one Bill; Parliamentary Counsel advised last year that this was an appropriate pairing for these measures. Given the current pressures on Parliamentary time, and the limit on available legislative slots, we adopted exactly the same approach this year.</p><p> </p><p>I welcome the commitment made by the Department for the Economy to appoint an independent chair to examine the cases of individuals who received funds from the RHI initiative and believe they have experienced hardship. The appointment of the Chair is a matter for that Department, but we will continue to work closely with DfE on this important matter.</p> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank grouped question UIN HL14865 HL14867 question first answered 02/04/2019 12:43:14 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank
tabling member	648 label Biography information for Lord Maginnis of Drumglass

1105686

registered interest
date	27/03/2019
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 Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord Duncan of Springbank on 19 March (HL Deb, col 1408), what progress they have made in appointing an independent chairman to examine the case of every individual who received funds from the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme and experienced hardship as a result of that scheme.
tabling member printed	Lord Maginnis of Drumglass
uin	HL14867
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department for the Economy (DfE) delivers the Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme in Northern Ireland. The £1.3bn figure was the DfE estimate assuming a scenario of the original 2012 tariffs remaining unchanged. It is of course now no longer relevant as these tariffs no longer apply.</p><p> </p><p>On the combining of Rates and RHI into one Bill; Parliamentary Counsel advised last year that this was an appropriate pairing for these measures. Given the current pressures on Parliamentary time, and the limit on available legislative slots, we adopted exactly the same approach this year.</p><p> </p><p>I welcome the commitment made by the Department for the Economy to appoint an independent chair to examine the cases of individuals who received funds from the RHI initiative and believe they have experienced hardship. The appointment of the Chair is a matter for that Department, but we will continue to work closely with DfE on this important matter.</p> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank grouped question UIN HL14865 HL14866 question first answered 02/04/2019 12:43:14 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank
tabling member	648 label Biography information for Lord Maginnis of Drumglass

1105258

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	British Irish Intergovernmental Conference
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, on what date the next British Irish Intergovernmental Conference is scheduled to take place.
tabling member constituency	Rochdale
tabling member printed	Tony Lloyd
uin	237023
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>I refer the honourable Member to the answer I gave on 26 March 2019 (UIN 235262). At the last meeting of the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference in November 2018, the UK and Irish Governments agreed to hold another meeting in the spring of 2019.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 01/04/2019 10:58:51 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	450 label Biography information for Tony Lloyd

1105260

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
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 Assembly: Elections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when she plans to lay before the House the relevant measures to extend the period under which the duty to call an Assembly election is removed as outlined in the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Exercise of Functions) Act 2018.
tabling member constituency	Rochdale
tabling member printed	Tony Lloyd
uin	237024
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>I laid the statutory instrument that extended the period for Executive formation on 21 March. It came into force on 25 March and, as a made affirmative instrument, it will be subject to a debate and vote in Parliament in due course.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 01/04/2019 10:59:50 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	450 label Biography information for Tony Lloyd

1105318

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Abortion: 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 her oral contribution to the Women and Equalities Committee inquiry into abortion in Northern Ireland on 27 February 2019, what plans she has to bring forward legislative proposals to give legal standing to the Northern Ireland Human Rights Committee.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	237193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>I have secured collective agreement across Government to commit to introduce legislation to address the Commission’s ‘own motion’ legal standing under the Human Rights Act 1998, via its powers under the Northern Ireland Act 1998. This will happen at the earliest opportunity, before the end of 2019, to ensure it has the legal mandate to bring cases in its own name before the UK domestic courts.</p><p> </p><p>We are currently working through options for the appropriate legislative vehicle to deliver this fix at the earliest opportunity.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 01/04/2019 11:01:01 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy