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1149898

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2019
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	British Nationality
	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 the implications for his policies of the statement by the Irish Taoiseach on 15 October 2019 that British citizenship laws are out of step with the Good Friday Agreement.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
	uin	1087
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2019 answer text <p>The Government remains firmly committed to upholding the Belfast Agreement and the rights it protects, including the birthright of all the people of Northern Ireland to identify themselves and be accepted as Irish or British or both, and the right to hold both British and Irish citizenship.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Skipton and Ripon answering member printed Julian Smith question first answered 24/10/2019 11:03:44 answering member 4118 label Biography information for Julian Smith
	tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1149905

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2019
	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, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect of the supply and confidence agreement arrangement between the Government and the Democratic Unionist Party on the Government's discussions with other political parties in Northern Ireland.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
	uin	1090
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2019 answer text <p>The political talks with the Northern Ireland parties on restoring devolution are, quite rightly, handled separately from any confidence and supply discussions with our partners in the DUP.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Skipton and Ripon answering member printed Julian Smith question first answered 25/10/2019 13:51:47 answering member 4118 label Biography information for Julian Smith
	tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1149907

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2019
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Social Democratic & Labour Party
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he last met the leadership of the Social Democratic and Labour Party.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
	uin	1092
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2019 answer text <p>I last spoke to the leadership of the SDLP on 17 October.</p> answering member constituency Skipton and Ripon answering member printed Julian Smith question first answered 25/10/2019 09:47:34 answering member 4118 label Biography information for Julian Smith
	tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1149908

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2019
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Sinn Féin
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he last met the leadership of Sinn Fein.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
	uin	1093
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2019 answer text <p>I last spoke to the leadership of Sinn Fein on 23 October.</p> answering member constituency Skipton and Ripon answering member printed Julian Smith question first answered 25/10/2019 09:48:53 answering member 4118 label Biography information for Julian Smith
	tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1149909

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2019
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Alliance Party
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he last met the leadership of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
	uin	1094
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2019 answer text <p>I last spoke to the leadership of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland on 25 October<strong><em>.</em></strong></p> answering member constituency Skipton and Ripon answering member printed Julian Smith question first answered 25/10/2019 09:49:32 answering member 4118 label Biography information for Julian Smith
	tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1149910

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2019
	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 Green Party
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he last met the leadership of the Green Party of Northern Ireland.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
	uin	1095
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2019 answer text <p>I last spoke to the leadership of the Green Party of Northern Ireland on 25 October.</p> answering member constituency Skipton and Ripon answering member printed Julian Smith question first answered 25/10/2019 09:50:07 answering member 4118 label Biography information for Julian Smith
	tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1149911

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2019
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Ulster Unionist Party
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he last met the leadership of the Ulster Unionist party.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
	uin	1096
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2019 answer text <p>I last spoke to the leadership of the Ulster Unionist party on 17 October.</p> answering member constituency Skipton and Ripon answering member printed Julian Smith question first answered 25/10/2019 09:50:40 answering member 4118 label Biography information for Julian Smith
	tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1149913

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2019
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Abortion and Marriage: Northern Ireland
	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 bring forward legislative proposals to (a) reform abortion laws and (b) extend same-sex marriage to Northern Ireland.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
	uin	1097
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2019 answer text <p>The Government plans to have regulations in place on abortion law and same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland by the dates stipulated in the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc.) Act 2019. Given the Northern Ireland Executive was not restored by 21 October 2019, the Government is therefore under a legal duty to comply with sections 8 and 9 of the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc.) Act 2019 to:</p><p> </p><p>a) bring forward regulations to enable same-sex marriage and opposite-sex civil partnerships in Northern Ireland by 13 January 2020; and</p><p> </p><p>b) bring forward regulations for a new legal framework for abortion to be in place in Northern Ireland by 31 March 2020.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Skipton and Ripon answering member printed Julian Smith question first answered 24/10/2019 11:30:51 answering member 4118 label Biography information for Julian Smith
	tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1149914

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2019
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Army: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether he has met with the (a) families of the victims of (i) the events in Ballymurphy in August 1971 and (ii) Bloody Sunday and (b) other victims’ families and groups, to discuss proposals for a statute of limitations.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
	uin	1098
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2019 answer text <p>It would not be appropriate to discuss particular incidents whilst legal proceedings are ongoing. However, the views of victims groups and families on how to address the legacy of Northern Ireland's past have been sought with many of the 17,000 responses received from individuals whose lives have been touched by the Troubles. Ministers in the Northern Ireland Office have also recently met with a number of victims and victims groups to discuss these issues.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Skipton and Ripon answering member printed Julian Smith question first answered 25/10/2019 13:53:40 answering member 4118 label Biography information for Julian Smith
	tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1150563

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2019
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Abortion: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what legal protections in place between 22 October 2019 and 31 March 2020 to protect health professionals in Northern Ireland that have a conscientious objection to abortion.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	1554
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2019 answer text <p>I published guidance for health professionals on 7 October 2019 on gov.uk/nio that sets out the changes to the law on access to abortion services for healthcare professionals and what this means for them in relation to their patients during the interim period.</p><p> </p><p>No healthcare professionals will be compelled to provide services, other than treatment which is necessary to save the life of the woman or girl, or to prevent grave permanent injury to her physical or mental health. In the interim period (prior to the legal framework coming into force by 31 March 2020) if a healthcare professional has a conscientious objection to abortion, they can raise this with their employer and follow relevant guidance from their professional body.</p><p> </p><p>We will be shortly consulting on the new legal framework. We will continue engaging with healthcare professionals in Northern Ireland to ensure that the legal abortion provisions can also be accompanied by professional guidance and professional standards of practice to assist healthcare professionals in Northern Ireland to clearly understand their legal rights, obligations and duties from 31 March 2020.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Skipton and Ripon answering member printed Julian Smith question first answered 25/10/2019 13:59:02 answering member 4118 label Biography information for Julian Smith
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes