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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

810655

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2017
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Elections: 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 his Department has taken to deter and prevent electoral fraud in Northern Ireland.
	tabling member constituency	South Antrim
	tabling member printed	Paul Girvan
	uin	121000
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2018 answer text <p>The administration of elections in Northern Ireland is an operational matter for the Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland, and all cases of suspected electoral fraud are referred by her to the Police Service of Northern Ireland. I am aware that a very small number of cases of possible fraud were referred to the PSNI last year.</p><p> </p><p>The Chief Electoral Officer has conducted a review of absent voting procedures at recent elections which the Secretary of State will consider carefully. A copy of the Chief Electoral Officer’s letter will be placed in the Library of the House.</p><p><br> <br></p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 11/01/2018 16:17:18 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	4633 label Biography information for Paul Girvan

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