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810319

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2017
	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 assessment he has made of trends in the levels of recruitment to loyalist paramilitary groups in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	North Down
	tabling member printed	Lady Hermon
	uin	120785
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>Paramilitary groups were not justified in the past and they are not justified today. The then incumbent Secretary of State for Northern Ireland commissioned an assessment of paramilitary groups which was published in October 2015 and concluded that all the main loyalist paramilitary groups remain in existence.</p><p> </p><p>We continue to work with NI Executive Departments on their tackling paramilitarism programme to which the UK Government has committed £25m of funding. The NI Executive has matched this commitment. This programme involves actions aimed at long-term prevention, including supporting those who may be vulnerable to recruitment, building confidence in the justice system, tackling criminal activity and building community capacity to support transition.</p><p> </p><p>The Independent Reporting Commission (IRC), established by the UK and Irish governments, was legally constituted in August 2017. It will report annually on progress towards ending paramilitary activity including the implementation of the relevant measures by the UK and Irish governments and the NI Executive’s action plan.</p><p> </p><p>Having Northern Ireland Executive Ministers in place to provide strategic direction for this important programme of work is one of the reasons for my primary focus being on the restoration of devolved government.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 18/01/2018 11:28:10 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	1437 label Biography information for Lady Hermon

816734

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2018
	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 Government
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he plans to convene a plenary of the five main political parties in Northern Ireland to seek a resolution to the political situation in Northern Ireland.
	tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
	tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
	uin	121161
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>Northern Ireland Office Ministers will outline plans for further talks with the political parties shortly. The Government remains committed to getting devolution up and running in Northern Ireland.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 18/01/2018 11:29:17 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

820032

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2018
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans the new Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has to meet women in Northern Ireland born in the 1950s and adversely affected by the equalisation of state pension entitlement; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	North Down
	tabling member printed	Lady Hermon
	uin	122104
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>While I would of course consider carefully any request received to meet stakeholders in Northern Ireland, this matter has been comprehensively debated on many occasions in Parliament and the UK Government will not be making changes to its policy on the state pension age for women born in the 1950s.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 18/01/2018 11:30:57 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	1437 label Biography information for Lady Hermon

820811

	registered interest
	date	11/01/2018
	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: Carers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether her Department has a carer's policy for its employees; and what other steps her Department has taken to support employees with caring responsibilities.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	122229
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>The Northern Ireland Office has a range of support in place for carers through the Ministry of Justice, whose terms and conditions we follow, including dedicated Parent and Carer Support guidance outlining the support that is available. This includes a carer’s information pack and information about flexible working.</p><p> </p><p>The Charity for Civil Servants also provides guidance and support to carers and we encourage the use of their Carer’s Passport, which is designed to help working civil servants balance their caring responsibilities more effectively with their work commitments.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 18/01/2018 11:32:22 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead