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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 18 Nov 2025
Northern Ireland Troubles Bill

"The thing that seems to bind us all together is the search for the truth. I just hope that, through this process, we might be able to agree about how we can achieve that. One of my earliest Adjournment debates, way back in 1999, was on the murder of Patrick …..."
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Written Question
Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland
Wednesday 26th February 2025

Asked by: John McDonnell (Labour - Hayes and Harlington)

Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of pages 142 and 143 of the Irish government's publication entitled Programme for Government 2025 - Securing Ireland's Future, published on 23 January 2025.

Answered by Hilary Benn - Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

I welcome the Irish Government’s commitment to enhancing bilateral relations and upholding the principles of the Good Friday Agreement. We have made great progress in resetting UK-Ireland relations since the UK General Election and this will be reaffirmed by the first UK-Ireland Summit between the Prime Minister and Taoiseach, underlining our renewed and close relations.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 15 Dec 2014
Northern Ireland (All-party Talks)

"I would like the Secretary of State to clarify the maths on this. Some £1.5 billion has been cut from the Northern Ireland budget since 2011 to assist the UK Government in reducing borrowing and tackling the deficit, yet the solution now being put forward is to ask Northern Ireland …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Oct 2011
Pat Finucane

"Soon after I was elected in 1997, I led an Adjournment debate on the Finucane case and I do not doubt the Minister’s wish to move on. However, one thing I learned in that debate and afterwards was that unless the family sanctions the process of moving on, this will …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 15 Dec 2010
Oral Answers to Questions

"According to the latest statistics, children of asylum seekers have been placed in detention centres on 665 occasions in the past year, which means that it is highly likely that there will be children in our detention centres this Christmas. This is not a party-political point. May I ask the …..."
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