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940110

registered interest
date	12/07/2018
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: Reviews
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many independent reviews the Northern Ireland Office has commissioned into its policy or administration over the last year; and what was the total cost of those reviews.
tabling member printed	Lord Watts
uin	HL9525
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>The Northern Ireland Office has not commissioned any independent reviews into its policy or administration over the last year.</p> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank question first answered 19/07/2018 15:35:40 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank
tabling member	489 label Biography information for Lord Watts

938540

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
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 Assembly Members: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2018 to Question 161114, what representations she has received other than in written form from political parties in Northern Ireland on the subject of cutting MLA pay; and if she will publish the substance of such representations.
tabling member constituency	North Down
tabling member printed	Lady Hermon
uin	163019
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>As the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland told the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee on 4 July, she has had a number of meetings with party leaders and Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly that have included discussion of MLA pay and does not feel it appropriate to make public the contents of private meetings.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 16/07/2018 09:33:59 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1437 label Biography information for Lady Hermon

935025

registered interest
date	05/07/2018
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 Assembly Members: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to her oral contribution of 21 March 2018, Official Report, column 337, if she will publish the representations made to her by each of the main political parties on cutting MLA salaries; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North Down
tabling member printed	Lady Hermon
uin	161114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2018 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has received no written representations from the political parties on the issue of MLA pay, and is carefully considering all the issues and will set out the next steps on this matter in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 10/07/2018 14:44:37 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1437 label Biography information for Lady Hermon

935029

registered interest
date	05/07/2018
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 Assembly Members: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which of the Northern Ireland political parties objects to the salaries of MLA's being cut in the continued absence of a functioning Northern Ireland Assembly; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North Down
tabling member printed	Lady Hermon
uin	161117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2018 answer text <p>It would be a matter for the political parties to give their public position on the issue of MLA pay. <br></p><p>The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is carefully considering all the issues and will set out the next steps on this matter in due course.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 10/07/2018 14:45:23 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1437 label Biography information for Lady Hermon

934120

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
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, if she will review legislation to ensure that people responsible for threatening paramilitary window displays can be prosecuted effectively.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	160120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2018 answer text <p>Counter-terrorism legislation already provides for offences of expressing support for a proscribed organisation, publishing images in such a way as to arouse reasonable suspicion that the person is a member or supporter of a proscribed organisation, and encouragement of terrorism and dissemination of terrorist publications.</p><p> </p><p>Northern Ireland Office officials have worked with the Home Office on the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill currently before Parliament which, among other things, will make it possible to prosecute individuals if they are reckless as to whether their statements will encourage others to support terrorist organisations.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 06/07/2018 10:29:56 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

934468

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they intend to take to reassure Northern Irish businesses that their operations will not be interrupted if the UK leaves the EU in March 2019 without a withdrawal agreement.
tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
uin	HL9149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government has agreed a detailed proposal for a UK-EU free trade area which will establish a common rule book for industrial goods and agricultural products and maintain high standards in these areas.</p><p> </p><p>This proposal will protect jobs and livelihoods and ensure that both sides meet their commitments to Northern Ireland and Ireland through the overall future relationship, whilst retaining the constitutional integrity of the United Kingdom and respecting the result of the referendum. Further details are set out in the White Paper.</p><p> </p><p>We are confident that this proposal will work for the UK and the EU and look forward to productive discussions. As a responsible Government we will also continue to prepare for a range of outcomes, including the unlikely scenario in which no mutually satisfactory agreement can be reached.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank question first answered 16/07/2018 12:06:12 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank
tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

933748

registered interest
date	02/07/2018
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	British Irish Intergovernmental Conference
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Duncan of Springbank on 20 June (HL8501), what assessment they have made of the comments of the Irish Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Coveney, about the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference in July as a forum for working “to achieve the earliest operation of the devolved institutions”; whether restoring the operation of the devolved institutions will be discussed with the government of Ireland at the Conference; and if so, why.
tabling member printed	Lord Maginnis of Drumglass
uin	HL9134
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>The British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference (BIIGC) is concerned with non-devolved Northern Ireland issues. It is not an executive body and as the Belfast Agreement states ‘there will be no derogation from the sovereignty of either government’.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank question first answered 16/07/2018 12:05:33 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank
tabling member	648 label Biography information for Lord Maginnis of Drumglass

933911

registered interest
date	02/07/2018
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 recent discussions the Government has had with politicians in Northern Ireland on access to abortion in that country.
tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
tabling member printed	Hugh Gaffney
uin	159698
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2018 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has been taking forward regular discussions with the main political parties in Northern Ireland about restoring devolved government and the pressing devolved issues which need to be addressed by a restored Assembly and Executive, including abortion.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 04/07/2018 14:56:39 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4614 label Biography information for Hugh Gaffney

932047

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Assembly Members: Pay
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they intend to make a determination on the salary levels of Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
tabling member printed	Lord Empey
uin	HL9020
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2018 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has made clear that she is carefully considering all the details and will set out the next steps on this matter in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank question first answered 06/07/2018 09:56:27 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank
tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

931349

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Flags: 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 undertake a review of the (a) procedures and (b) conditions for designated days on which the Union Flag is flown from Government buildings in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	157680
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>The flying of flags on Northern Ireland government buildings is regulated by The Flags (Northern Ireland) Order 2000, and The Flags Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000, as amended in 2002, which specifies the buildings and the days on which the Union flag can be flown. There are no current plans to review how this legislation operates in regulating flag flying at Northern Ireland government buildings.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 02/07/2018 08:56:01 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell