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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 26 Oct 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"11. Manufacturing is very important to the Northern Ireland economy. Given the recent job losses at JTI Gallaher and Michelin, what is the Secretary of State doing to safeguard current manufacturing jobs and to help to create more manufacturing jobs in Northern Ireland?..."
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Written Question
Economic Situation: Northern Ireland
Wednesday 8th June 2016

Asked by: Lord Brennan of Canton (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent assessment she has made of the potential effect on the economy in Northern Ireland of the UK leaving the EU.

Answered by Ben Wallace

The Government is clear that we are safer, stronger and better off in the EU.

Reports by HM Treasury are clear that leaving the EU would bring serious economic costs that would affect businesses, jobs, living standards and public finances for decades to come.


Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 02 Mar 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"What assessment has the Secretary of State made of the impact on Northern Ireland’s financial position of leaving the European Union? What assessment have her civil servants made of it, and is she allowed to see it?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 14 Oct 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"Q9. Can the Prime Minister help to clear up something for the House and the country? It concerns the recent biography of him by Isabel Oakeshott. In it, Lord Ashcroft says that he told the Prime Minister about his non-dom tax status in 2009; yet, in 2010, the Prime Minister …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Sep 2015
Northern Ireland: Political Situation

"Along with colleagues on both sides of the House, I attended the Global Irish Parliamentarians’ Forum in Dublin last week. Will the Secretary of State expand on the role that she thinks the Irish Government could play in trying to unblock the current impasse?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 Jul 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"7. What recent discussions she has had with the Minister for Education in the Northern Ireland Executive on shared education...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 Jul 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"Thank you, Mr Speaker. I recently met the Minister for Education in Northern Ireland and the Chair of the Education Committee there, and we discussed shared education, among other things. I was listening carefully to what the Minister just said and although I would not expect him to have met …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Jan 2014
Haass Talks

"I cannot help but feel that, by now, Paul Goggins would have made a contribution on this statement with his usual good sense, grace and compassion that would have added wisdom to our proceedings. That is why his passing is a loss not just to his family, friends and comrades, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 16 Jul 2013
Northern Ireland

"In many ways, it was appropriate that the conference was held in Cardiff, given that anyone who has visited Belfast and Cardiff will know the similarities, in terms of maritime history, architecture and the friendly nature of all the people in both cities. Will the Secretary of State recommit to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Dec 2012
Northern Ireland

"I, too, express solidarity with the hon. Member for Belfast East (Naomi Long), who has shown great courage and dignity in the light of the attacks that she has suffered, and with all our colleagues from Northern Ireland—our valued colleagues in this place—who operate in a political environment in the …..."
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