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date	27/05/2015
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Stormont House Agreement
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government which strand talk sessions representatives of the government of the Republic of Ireland attended during the Stormont House talks; on what dates those sessions occurred; on whose invitation those representatives were invited; and, if such information is not available, why not.
tabling member printed	Lord Laird
uin	HL34
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>Irish Government representatives were present on a number of occasions in the talks leading up to the Stormont House Agreement. As the Noble Lord is aware, the involvement of the Irish Government was in accordance with the established three-stranded approach to Northern Ireland affairs and the 1998 Belfast Agreement. As the Conservative Party’s Northern Ireland Manifesto for the General Election states:</p><p>“This provides that Northern Ireland’s internal arrangements are for the parties here and the United Kingdom Government alone to decide. A Conservative Government will always stand by that principle.”</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Dunlop question first answered 04/06/2015 11:57:54 answering member 4534 label Biography information for Lord Dunlop
tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

227995

registered interest
date	17/03/2015
answering body	Leader of the House of Lords
answering dept id	92
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name	Leader of the House of Lords
hansard heading	Written Questions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether their policy is that all Parliamentary Written Questions should be answered in full in all parts.
tabling member printed	Lord Laird
uin	HL5810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>As Leader of the House, I have a particular responsibility to encourage departments to be punctual in answering written questions, but the content of each answer is a matter for the minister concerned. All Ministers are accountable to the House for those answers. That direct accountability is important: that is why Ministers in this House must provide personally signed answers to members.</p><p> </p><p>To inform Ministers in answering questions put to them, the Ministerial Code says that “It is of paramount importance that Ministers give accurate and truthful information to Parliament”. It also makes clear that “Ministers should be as open as possible with Parliament and the public, refusing to provide information only when disclosure would not be in the public interest”. In addition, the longstanding rules of this House on Questions for Written Answer (rules that the House reaffirmed in agreeing to the Procedure Committee’s 5<sup>th</sup> Report of the 2014-15 Session) set out that all answers should be complete and comprehensible.</p><p> </p><p>If any member has particular concerns about a response that they have received that they consider does not adhere to these rules, I would encourage them to raise it with me directly.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Stowell of Beeston grouped question UIN HL5717 question first answered 24/03/2015 13:45:04 answering member 4205 label Biography information for Baroness Stowell of Beeston
tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

226890

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Electronic Surveillance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the tasks undertaken by the PRISM surveillance programme.
tabling member printed	Lord Laird
uin	HL5677
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>It has been the long standing policy of successive governments not to comment on intelligence matters. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal made clear in its judgment of 6 February that the regime for making requests for interception via the US National Security Agency's PRISM programme is lawful and human rights compliant.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL5678 HL5679 question first answered 19/03/2015 11:58:52 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

226891

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Electronic Surveillance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what contact, if any, they have had with the government of the United States about the activities of the PRISM surveillance programme.
tabling member printed	Lord Laird
uin	HL5678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>It has been the long standing policy of successive governments not to comment on intelligence matters. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal made clear in its judgment of 6 February that the regime for making requests for interception via the US National Security Agency's PRISM programme is lawful and human rights compliant.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL5677 HL5679 question first answered 19/03/2015 11:58:52 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

226893

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Electronic Surveillance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the judgment of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal in the case of <i>Liberty and Others</i> of 6 February, whether the PRISM surveillance programme is supported in any way by Her Majesty's Government; if so, when the support started; and what form the support has taken.
tabling member printed	Lord Laird
uin	HL5679
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>It has been the long standing policy of successive governments not to comment on intelligence matters. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal made clear in its judgment of 6 February that the regime for making requests for interception via the US National Security Agency's PRISM programme is lawful and human rights compliant.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL5677 HL5678 question first answered 19/03/2015 11:58:53 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird