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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 26 Nov 2025
Ministerial Code

"My Lords, does the Minister agree with me that detailed codes of conduct can never ensure good behaviour, and constant allegations across the Dispatch Box of breaches of the code undermine public confidence in the integrity of public life rather than enhance it?..."
Lord Butler of Brockwell - View Speech

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Written Question
Terrorism: Northern Ireland
Wednesday 10th June 2020

Asked by: Lord Butler of Brockwell (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Supreme Court judgement in R v Adams (Appellant) (Northern Ireland) on 13 May, how many other temporary detention Orders under Article 4(1) of the Detention of Terrorists (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 were signed by a Minister of State or Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State. [T]

Answered by Viscount Younger of Leckie - Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions)

The Government is considering the implications of the Supreme Court judgment, central to which is the issue of Interim Custody Orders which were considered and signed by Ministers during periods of internment in Northern Ireland. It would not be appropriate to comment further at this time.