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date	05/03/2024
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: WhatsApp
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what guidance his Department issues on the use of WhatsApp.
tabling member constituency	Llanelli
tabling member printed	Dame Nia Griffith
uin	17060
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2024 answer text <p>All Departments in central government, including arms-length bodies apply the published guidance: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/non-corporate-communication-channels-for-government-business" target="_blank">Using non-corporate communication channels (e.g. WhatsApp, private email, SMS) for government business</a> published by Cabinet Office in March 2023. It applies to all individuals in central government (ministers, special advisers, officials, contractors, non-executive board members and independent experts advising ministers). The Northern Ireland Office uses the central guidance and has applied it since March 2023.</p><p>The Northern Ireland Office provides additional advice to supplement the central guidance which is published on the departmental intranet.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Mr Steve Baker question first answered 11/03/2024 16:05:00 answering member 4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker
tabling member	1541 label Biography information for Dame Nia Griffith

1693817

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date	05/03/2024
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Health Services and Social Services: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent discussions he has had with the Northern Ireland administration on pay for (a) health and social care and (b) NHS workers.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	17187
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2024 answer text <p>In the months leading up to the restoration of the Northern Ireland Executive, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland engaged with the Secretary of State for the Department of Health and Social Care and the Chief Secretary to the Treasury on the issue of pay awards for healthcare workers in Northern Ireland. In addition to these meetings, he met with trade union representatives on this important matter.<strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>Healthcare is a devolved matter and pay awards are ultimately a matter for the Department of Health. The UK Government has provided the Executive with a £3.3 billion financial package to stabilise Northern Ireland’s finances. This package includes £584m to provide public sector pay awards for 2023-24. It will be up to the Executive to decide on the level of pay awards and to balance these costs against other priorities.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Mr Steve Baker question first answered 13/03/2024 11:28:27 answering member 4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1693995

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date	05/03/2024
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 Protocol
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Caine on 4 March and with regard to paragraphs 54 and 65 of the relevant Supreme Court judgment, whether they can confirm that the inconsistency between the Acts of Union and the protocol was not at issue before the Supreme Court because the Government did not lodge any cross appeal from the Court of Appeal’s decision that such inconsistency existed.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hoey
uin	HL3032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>The Supreme Court clearly set out in its judgement of 8 February 2023 the issues it considered and its reasoning for reaching the conclusions it did.</p><p>The Government’s consistent position on these matters is set out in the <em>Safeguarding the Union </em>Command Paper, which is that the Windsor Framework (which replaced the old Protocol) applies entirely consistently with Northern Ireland’s constitutional position within the United Kingdom, including as expressed in the relevant statute today.</p> answering member printed Lord Caine question first answered 12/03/2024 14:23:14 answering member 4581 label Biography information for Lord Caine
tabling member	210 label Biography information for Baroness Hoey