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926993

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2018
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Official Engagements: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, in how many Northern Ireland parliamentary constituencies she has had engagements since her appointment to that office.
	tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
	tabling member printed	David Simpson
	uin	155239
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has had engagements in twelve of the <del class="ministerial">sixteen</del> <ins class="ministerial">eighteen</ins> parliamentary constituencies since her appointment.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 26/06/2018 11:36:19 question first ministerially corrected 27/06/2018 11:03:05 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara previous answer version 65684 answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

820816

	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	Offences against Children: 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 make it her priority to meet the victims and survivors of historical institutional abuse in Northern Ireland; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	North Down
	tabling member printed	Lady Hermon
	uin	122234
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>This Government has always been very clear in its outright condemnation of any form of abuse of children. Any tolerance by people in positions of authority of such activity by others is abhorrent.</p><p> </p><p>The Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry was established by the Executive and responsibility for implementing Sir Anthony Hart’s recommendations falls to the devolved administration. My Right Honourable Friend, James Brokenshire MP, was very clear that in the absence of an Executive, he would not interfere in devolved matters in Northern Ireland except to the extent that it is absolutely necessary to do so in order to allow public administration to continue and public services to be maintained. Decisions on the direction of devolved public policy are best taken by the elected representatives of the Northern Ireland population. It was those representatives who set up the HIA Inquiry and they are best placed to consider how to implement it.</p><p> </p><p>While Northern Ireland Office Ministers start work with the Northern Ireland parties on the restoration of the Executive the above still stands.</p><p> </p><p>Northern Ireland Office Ministers assure you we understand and recognise the strength of feeling and frustration around the lack of progress in responding to Sir Anthony's recommendations due to the lack of a functioning Executive. We acknowledge and welcome the detailed preparatory work being undertaken by the Executive Office, and are aware David Sterling, Head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, has invited victims and survivors to a briefing in relation to this on 30 January. We would welcome a meeting with victims and survivors after they have been briefed by David Sterling.</p><p> </p><p>Progressing the implementation of the Hart recommendations is one of the many reasons we remain determined to get a Northern Ireland Executive back up and running as soon as possible. We continue to urge the Northern Ireland parties to seek urgent resolution to restore the Executive.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 122235 question first answered 24/01/2018 17:44:04 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara previous answer version 34657 answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	1437 label Biography information for Lady Hermon

865176

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2018
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Children: Day Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions of 13 March 2018, Official Report, column 768, what plans she has to discuss with Northern Ireland political parties the roll out of childcare support in Northern Ireland similar to 30 hours of funded childcare in England.
	tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
	tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
	uin	133043
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2018 answer text <p>I refer the honourable Member to the answer given by my Rt honourable Friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury on 26 March 2018 (UIN 133099).</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 03/04/2018 12:19:04 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara previous answer version 48406 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110
	tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1000287

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2018
	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: Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much her Department has spent on consultancy fees in relation to the UK leaving the EU since July 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	187303
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The Department has spent £16,902 on consultancy fees since July 2016 for work related to the UK leaving the EU. This work covered research into many aspects of the economy in Northern Ireland, and only a portion of this work related directly to the impact of EU Exit.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 12/11/2018 15:38:32 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1002146

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2018
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Waste Disposal: 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 5 November 2018 to Question 185592 on Waste Disposal: Northern Ireland, what guidance she plans to issue to the Northern Ireland Department for Infrastructure on the use of private finance for the funding of infrastructure projects.
	tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
	tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
	uin	188206
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has provided guidance to the Northern Ireland Departments on decision making in the absence of the Executive. There are no plans to issue the Northern Ireland Department for Infrastructure with specific guidance on the use of private finance for the funding of infrastructure.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 12/11/2018 11:24:33 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

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

819183

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2018
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	BBC Northern Ireland: Equal Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what representations she has made to the Northern Ireland Equality Commission on ensuring equal pay for BBC employees in Northern Ireland.
	tabling member constituency	North Down
	tabling member printed	Lady Hermon
	uin	121860
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>Neither the Secretary of State nor the previous Secretary of State has made representations to the ECNI regarding BBC pay.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 15/01/2018 17:50:17 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	1437 label Biography information for Lady Hermon

819185

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2018
	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, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of the conduct of the hon. Member for West Tyrone in relation to the Kingsmil massacre on the talks to restore devolved government in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	North Down
	tabling member printed	Lady Hermon
	uin	121862
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>The Kingsmill attack was a horrendous terrorist atrocity, and I recognise the pain and suffering of such an attack never diminishes for the families of the victims. My sympathies, at this present time, go out to the families who lost loved ones as a result of this barbaric attack.</p><p>Mr McElduff has now announced that he is standing down as an MP. The inquiry into Mr McElduff’s actions now rests with the Police Service of Northern Ireland, who will determine any potential criminal proceedings, and the Commissioner for Parliamentary Standards has been alerted.</p><p>I assure you, the department remain determined and committed to get a Northern Ireland Executive back up and running as soon as possible, and I continue to urge the Northern Ireland parties to seek urgent resolution to restore the Executive.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 15/01/2018 17:49:33 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	1437 label Biography information for Lady Hermon