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1433977

registered interest
date	22/02/2022
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, if he will make the wellbeing of veterans in Northern Ireland living with PTSD a priority of his during discussions on historical prosecution of veterans for actions during the Troubles.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	127409
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2022 answer text <p>The Government takes the wellbeing of our veterans very seriously. That is why we are delivering on our commitments made in New Decade, New Approach and in particular, ensuring that our veterans are treated similarly to their counterparts across the rest of the UK.</p><p> </p><p>This Government has delivered for veterans in Northern Ireland through the establishment of the NI Veterans Commissioner and further funding to the Veterans' Support Office. These bodies advocate for and assist veterans as they navigate services such as health and social care.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will also deliver on its commitment to NI veterans as part of a wider package to address legacy issues in Northern Ireland that focuses on reconciliation. The well-being of veterans who served in Northern Ireland is of course a key aspect of these discussions, which are ongoing.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bournemouth West answering member printed Conor Burns question first answered 01/03/2022 17:25:32 answering member 3922 label Biography information for Sir Conor Burns
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1421757

registered interest
date	10/02/2022
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	UK Internal Trade: 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 progress the Government has made in facilitating trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	122653
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to strengthening the Union and Northern Ireland’s place within it. Increasing trade flows between the four nations of the UK is a key part of that strategy. To that end, we have legislated to ensure unfettered access for trade from Northern Ireland to Great Britain and invested £200 million to support businesses trading between Northern Ireland and Great Britain, through schemes such as the Trader Support Service.</p><p>We are currently in negotiations with the EU to resolve the issues experienced by traders under the Northern Ireland Protocol and the next meeting of the Withdrawal Agreement Joint Committee will be held next week.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bournemouth West answering member printed Conor Burns question first answered 24/02/2022 11:10:29 answering member 3922 label Biography information for Sir Conor Burns
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1421758

registered interest
date	10/02/2022
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Ambulance Services: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will discuss with Cabinet colleagues improvements to ambulance response times in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	122654
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2022 answer text <p>Health is a devolved matter in Northern Ireland. The Northern Ireland Health Minister, Robin Swann, has laid out his strategy for the health service in Northern Ireland including tackling ambulance response times.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth West answering member printed Conor Burns question first answered 23/02/2022 11:18:51 answering member 3922 label Biography information for Sir Conor Burns
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1399761

registered interest
date	05/01/2022
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	UK Internal Trade: 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 steps have been taken by the EU to facilitate trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland; and what steps he is taking to help ensure that business are able to source parts from Great Britain for (a) vehicles and (b) lawn mowers.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	98282
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>The Government welcomed the European Union’s acknowledgement in October last year that the current operation of the Protocol is having considerable impacts on Northern Ireland businesses and on the people of Northern Ireland more widely.</p><p>In December, the European Union published proposals with the intention to facilitate medicine supply to Northern Ireland. The Government is considering these proposals carefully.</p><p>In relation to movement of goods, whilst the Trader Support Service and the Movement Assistance Scheme provides support to traders moving goods between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, businesses continue to raise significant concerns with me and it is clear that there needs to be substantively different processes for goods remaining in the UK, in order to deal with these very real challenges.</p><p>The Government has made clear that discussions with the EU need to proceed with renewed urgency and our continued preference is to reach a comprehensive solution dealing with all the issues now. However, as long as there is no agreed solution, Article 16 safeguards remain on the table to deal with the very real problems faced in Northern Ireland.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth West answering member printed Conor Burns question first answered 13/01/2022 13:25:39 answering member 3922 label Biography information for Sir Conor Burns
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1367282

registered interest
date	09/11/2021
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Irish Language: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will take steps to ensure a choice for schools who do not wish to teach the Irish Language in any legislative proposals on the Irish Language.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	72425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2021 answer text <p>The Government is taking forward the carefully negotiated legislative commitments on identity, language and culture in the New Decade, New Approach agreement as the Northern Ireland Executive has not done so.</p><p>The New Decade, New Approach agreement did not include provision for the teaching of the Irish language in schools and as such, the legislation the Government will introduce makes no change to the current arrangements</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bournemouth West answering member printed Conor Burns question first answered 15/11/2021 09:28:26 answering member 3922 label Biography information for Sir Conor Burns
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1356357

registered interest
date	16/09/2021
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 steps the Government has taken to support community integration in Northern Ireland by helping to ensure that all deaths from the Troubles are commemorated appropriately.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	50791
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2021 answer text <p>As outlined in the Command Paper on legacy published in July, the Government remains committed to furthering reconciliation in Northern Ireland and has set out proposals for doing so.</p><p>These proposals include initiatives that aim to facilitate thoughtful and inclusive commemoration and reflection on the past for people of all backgrounds, building on the Oral History Archive proposed in the Stormont House Agreement.</p><p>The Government’s proposals reflect, and continue to inform, bilateral and multilateral engagement with key stakeholders - including academic experts and the victims sector. We are still listening to, and carefully considering different views to ensure commemorative measures are appropriate and effective.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bournemouth West answering member printed Conor Burns question first answered 24/09/2021 12:21:17 answering member 3922 label Biography information for Sir Conor Burns
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1327283

registered interest
date	24/05/2021
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Brexit: 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 he is taking to scrutinise the effects of the UK's withdrawal from the EU on Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	6291
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2021 answer text <p>The agreement reached with the EU gives us full control over our own laws, courts, borders and seas. It will help unlock investment and protect jobs right across the UK, giving us fantastic opportunities as an independent trading nation, striking trade deals with other partners around the world.</p><p> </p><p>The Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol is a unique, and delicately balanced, solution to a unique and sensitive set of problems. It aims to uphold the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement in all its aspects; safeguard Northern Ireland’s integral place in the United Kingdom, its customs territory and internal market, while preventing a hard border on the island of Ireland.</p><p> </p><p>It is clear over the months that the Protocol has been in force that there have been issues having a direct, and often disproportionate, impact. It is critical that these issues can be addressed in order to protect the political, social and economic fabric of life in Northern Ireland and to restore confidence on the ground. It is our priority to move discussions with the EU forward and to ensure the Protocol is given effect in the pragmatic and proportionate way intended.</p><p> </p><p>The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and I have met, and will continue to meet, with business and community representatives to listen to their experiences, to understand what the data tells us about impacts under the Protocol and to reaffirm the Government’s commitment to addressing issues with the Protocol. We will continue to work closely with all sectors of opinion in Northern Ireland as talks with the EU Commission continue.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 01/06/2021 09:11:46 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1315565

registered interest
date	18/05/2021
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: Borders
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 number of EU border checks completed in Northern Ireland, if he will have discussions with his EU counterpart on taking a more pragmatic approach towards the Northern Ireland Protocol.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	2986
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2021 answer text <p>The Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol (‘the Protocol’) is a unique solution to complex challenges. To work, it must be given effect in a pragmatic, practical and proportionate way. That is how we ensure it can meet its core purposes: to uphold the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement in all its dimensions, safeguard Northern Ireland’s integral place in the United Kingdom, and prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland.</p><p> </p><p>This has been the basis on which the UK Government has continued to give effect to its obligations under the Protocol, conscious of the need to minimise its impact on everyday lives in Northern Ireland - as the Protocol itself sets out.</p><p> </p><p>There have been difficulties in the operation of the Protocol, and we are working through the structures of the Withdrawal Agreement to seek to resolve these. <ins class="ministerial">The UK and EU were able to use the Ireland/Northern Ireland Specialised Committee on 26 March to take stock of outstanding issues. Lord Frost and Vice President Šefčovič, and their respective teams, remain in close contact as we move forward.</ins> Issues remain, but our aim is to find common sense, risk-based approaches that enable us to agree a pragmatic way forward that substantially eases the burdens on Northern Ireland.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 24/05/2021 11:00:54 question first ministerially corrected 27/05/2021 15:04:53 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker previous answer version 1872 answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1306888

registered interest
date	12/04/2021
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what his plans are for the future of the Northern Ireland protocol; and what steps he is taking to consult unionist communities in Northern Ireland on those plans.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	178609
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2021 answer text <p>The Northern Ireland Protocol was designed to protect the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement in all its dimensions and the gains of the peace process; prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland; and safeguard Northern Ireland’s place in the United Kingdom. For the Protocol to succeed, it must command the enduring support of all communities.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has provided a proposed work programme to the EU as the first step in working jointly to make progress across the full range of issues identified. Our priority is now to move those discussions forward, address concerns, and ensure the Protocol is given effect in the pragmatic and proportionate way intended.</p><p> </p><p>The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and I continue to meet with community leaders to ensure that the views of people in Northern Ireland are heard throughout this process. Following an informal meeting between Maroš Šefčovič and Lord Frost on 15 April, the priority to engage jointly with the UK, with businesses and other stakeholders in Northern Ireland was reiterated, with meetings to be organised within the next fortnight.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 19/04/2021 16:17:32 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1285047

registered interest
date	09/02/2021
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Prescriptions: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many GP practices have adopted electronic repeat dispensing; and what steps he is taking to increase uptake of electronic repeat dispensing.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	151711
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/02/2021 answer text <p>The Health Minister, Robin Swann, is leading the response for health matters in Northern Ireland as health is a devolved matter, within the competence of the Northern Ireland Executive. This includes addressing how many general practitioners' (GP) practices have adopted electronic repeat dispensing (eRD).</p><p> </p><p>The UK Government encourages GP practices across the UK to use electronic repeat dispensing (eRD) where clinically appropriate and Academic Health Science Networks have been supporting this. It is vital we reduce GP workloads where possible, while ensuring patients’ are as protected as possible.</p><p> </p><p>For more detailed information, I would recommend you engage with the Department of Health on this matter.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 16/02/2021 10:30:39 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon