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50643

registered interest
date	13/05/2014
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	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 Answer of 30 April 2014, Official Report, column 723W, on Northern Ireland government, when she last had a meeting with the Northern Ireland Minister for Social Development.
tabling member constituency	Bury South
tabling member printed	Mr Ivan Lewis
uin	198480
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>I refer the hon Gentleman to the answer I gave on 13 May 2014, Official Report, Column 521W.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chipping Barnet answering member printed Mrs Theresa Villiers question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers
tabling member	441 label Biography information for Mr Ivan Lewis

50347

registered interest
date	08/05/2014
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will provide funding for Praxis to support the relocation of employees working on the Hillsborough Estate.
tabling member constituency	Bury South
tabling member printed	Mr Ivan Lewis
uin	198178
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p>The NIO will not provide funding for Praxis to support the relocation of employees working on the Hillsborough Estate. Praxis has benefited from generous terms over several years at the site, including an annual rent of only £1 and has been given a lengthy period to make appropriate arrangements for their service users to move to one of the other Praxis sites.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chipping Barnet answering member printed Mrs Theresa Villiers question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers
tabling member	441 label Biography information for Mr Ivan Lewis

50348

registered interest
date	08/05/2014
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	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 support her Department has offered to Praxis to help relocate their services off the Hillsborough Estate.
tabling member constituency	Bury South
tabling member printed	Mr Ivan Lewis
uin	198179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p>Praxis Care has benefited from generous terms over several years at Hillsborough, including an annual rent of only £1. My Department has also given them a prolonged period in which to make other arrangements; the original Notice to Quit was issued twenty one months ago.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chipping Barnet answering member printed Mrs Theresa Villiers question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers
tabling member	441 label Biography information for Mr Ivan Lewis

50349

registered interest
date	08/05/2014
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will meet representatives of Praxis to discuss their eviction from the Hillsborough Estate.
tabling member constituency	Bury South
tabling member printed	Mr Ivan Lewis
uin	198180
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p>I have met Praxis Care on two occasions to discuss this matter and my officials have had several further meetings with them.</p><p> </p><p>In the light of the extensive discussions that have taken place with Praxis I do not feel that a further meeting would be appropriate at the present time.</p> answering member constituency Chipping Barnet answering member printed Mrs Theresa Villiers question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers
tabling member	441 label Biography information for Mr Ivan Lewis

50350

registered interest
date	08/05/2014
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when she was informed by officials in her Department that records for the period 1987 to 1988 relating to the Royal Prerogative of Mercy had gone missing; and whether she instigated an inquiry.
tabling member constituency	Bury South
tabling member printed	Mr Ivan Lewis
uin	198181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p>I first became aware of the issue on receipt of advice from officials and a draft response to recent parliamentary questions. I have asked for an urgent review of the historical records relating to RPMs during the period 1987 to 1997 and this is now being conducted.</p> answering member constituency Chipping Barnet answering member printed Mrs Theresa Villiers question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers
tabling member	441 label Biography information for Mr Ivan Lewis

50351

registered interest
date	08/05/2014
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	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 her Answer of 30 April 2014, Official Report, column 723W, on Northern Ireland government, when she last met with the Northern Ireland Minister for Social Development.
tabling member constituency	Bury South
tabling member printed	Mr Ivan Lewis
uin	198182
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p>I am in regular contact with the Northern Ireland Minister for Social Development on several issues. I last met him 8th May. I am due to meet him again shortly.</p> answering member constituency Chipping Barnet answering member printed Mrs Theresa Villiers question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers
tabling member	441 label Biography information for Mr Ivan Lewis

50436

registered interest
date	08/05/2014
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Baroness Randerson on 26 March (WA 124) and 3 April (WA 226), and by Lord Bates on 6 May(WA 410–11), whether they have any plans to reconsider the scope of Lady Justice Hallett's inquiry into on the runs or to assess its possible impact on the judicial, financial or community processes.
tabling member printed	Lord Maginnis of Drumglass
uin	HL7016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Government has no plans to reconsider the scope of Lady Justice Hallett's inquiry, nor to assess the impacts on the judicial, financial or community processes.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Randerson question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson
tabling member	648 label Biography information for Lord Maginnis of Drumglass

50437

registered interest
date	08/05/2014
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Baroness Randerson on 26 March (WA 124) and 3 April (WA 226), and by Lord Bates on 6 May (WA 410–11), in the light of the scope of Lady Justice Hallett's inquiry into on the runs, what role they envisage for the Northern Ireland Office, the Northern Ireland Civil Service and the Police Service of Northern Ireland in that inquiry.
tabling member printed	Lord Maginnis of Drumglass
uin	HL7017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>As noted in earlier written answers, the inquiry will have full access to files held by the Government; government officials who are requested to appear will be expected to do so. The inquiry may also interview key individuals from the Northern Ireland Civil Service, the police and any others where those individuals are willing. The Northern Ireland Office is providing appropriate support to the inquiry team, as its' sponsoring department.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Randerson question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson
tabling member	648 label Biography information for Lord Maginnis of Drumglass

50124

registered interest
date	07/05/2014
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	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 of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy certificates issued by her Department in the last 30 years have been issued to people accused of terrorism-related offences.
tabling member constituency	North Antrim
tabling member printed	Ian Paisley
uin	198119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The information provided in my written answer of 1 May 2014 (Official Report, Column 762W) was based on information held by my Department. I first became aware of the issue of missing files while preparing to answer that question. I directed that a review take place, along with other relevant Departments, of the historical records relating to RPMs during the period 1987 to 1997. This is ongoing.</p><p>Records indicate that the vast majority of uses of the RPM referred to in my answer of 1 May did not relate to terrorist offences. Historically, the RPM was used to remit sentences of individuals before statutory means existed to do so. This included releasing individuals from prison for compassionate reasons (e.g. those who were terminally ill), individuals who assisted the police and prosecuting authorities (now provided for by the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005), or to correct errors in calculating release dates. Further information on the general operation of the RPM can be found in the Ministry of Justice's “Review of the Executive Royal Prerogative Powers: Final Report”, published in October 2009.</p><p>In a written answer to the Member for North West Norfolk on 17 March 2014 (Official Report, Column 368W), I repeated an answer given on 20 March 2003 by the then-Secretary for State for Northern Ireland to the Member for Lagan Valley (Official Report, Column 895W) – namely that 18 individuals had been granted the RPM in relation to terrorist offences since 1998. Given the RPM has not been used since 2002 and has not been used by this Government, the answer given was the same as the 2003 one. However, early findings from the review of files have indicated that at least one of these cases did not relate to a terrorist offence and in one other case the records do not indicate whether or not the offence was terrorism related.</p><p>In relation to the remaining 16 uses of the RPM between 2000 and 2002 (which did concern terrorist offences), I understand that previous Secretaries of State for Northern Ireland used the RPM in relation to individuals who for technical reasons fell outside of the letter of the Early Release Scheme, to shorten (i.e. not waive or remove) sentences in order that individuals fell within what I understand the then-Government saw as the spirit of the Scheme.</p><p>In other words, the RPM was used to correct what the last Government viewed as discrepancies between the letter and the intention of the Belfast Agreement and the subsequent Northern Ireland (Sentences) Act – that for a certain category of terrorist offences, offenders could be released after serving two years of their sentences.</p><p>The reasons for exercising the RPM in the 16 terrorism-related cases are summarised as follows:</p><p>· to correct an anomaly in the treatment of an offender convicted of the same offence(s) and given the same sentence as co-defendants but who would otherwise have served longer in prison;</p><p>· to release prisoners who would have been eligible for early release under the Belfast Agreement had they not transferred to a different jurisdiction;</p><p>· to release prisoners who would have been eligible to be released under the Belfast Agreement had they not served sentences outside the jurisdiction having been convicted extraterritorially, or</p><p>· to release prisoners who would have been eligible to be released under the Belfast Agreement had their offences (which subsequently became scheduled offences) been scheduled at the time they were committed.</p><p>The names of the 16 individuals granted the RPM in relation to terrorist offences since 2000 are currently being considered as part of an ongoing court case in Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chipping Barnet answering member printed Mrs Theresa Villiers question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers previous answer version 9585 answering member constituency Chipping Barnet answering member printed Mrs Theresa Villiers answering member 1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers
tabling member	4129 label Biography information for Ian Paisley

50146

registered interest
date	07/05/2014
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
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 effectiveness of her Department's policies to combat the glorification of terrorism in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Belfast North
tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Dodds
uin	198062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Section 1 of the Terrorism Act 2006 makes the encouragement, including glorification of terrorism, a criminal offence. Any investigations into allegations of encouraging, including the glorification of terrorism, are of course entirely matters for the police, while decisions on prosecution of such offences are the responsibility of the Public Prosecution Service.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chipping Barnet answering member printed Mrs Theresa Villiers question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers
tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn