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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Mar 2016
Northern Ireland (Stormont Agreement and Implementation Plan) Bill

"I am not persuaded by any of the Minister’s arguments in respect of the quality of the amendment, but I can assure him that I will not press it to a Division.

The Minister said he was not sure that paragraphs (e) and (f) were needed. Paragraph (e) relates to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Mar 2016
Northern Ireland (Stormont Agreement and Implementation Plan) Bill

"Following the right hon. Member for Lagan Valley (Mr Donaldson), I want to make it clear that my party has not set out to oppose the Bill, but in the talks we worked for a better and fuller agreement than we have ended up with in the “Fresh Start” agreement. …..."
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Written Question
Welfare Reform and Work Bill
Monday 22nd February 2016

Asked by: Mark Durkan (Social Democratic & Labour Party - Foyle)

Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether the amendments to the Child Poverty Act 2010 in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill require a Legislative Consent Motion to be brought before the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Answered by Theresa Villiers

My Rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions wrote to the Northern Ireland Executive in July 2015 on introduction of the life chances clauses in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill. As well as setting out the Government’s approach to child poverty and improving life chances, and inviting the Northern Ireland Executive to consider amendments they might wish to have introduced, he set out that he did not consider that legislative consent was required for any of the provisions as introduced.

Written Question
Welfare Reform and Work Bill
Monday 22nd February 2016

Asked by: Mark Durkan (Social Democratic & Labour Party - Foyle)

Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether the amendments to the Child Poverty Act 2010 in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill are included in the welfare clauses referred to in the Northern Ireland (Welfare Reform) Order 2015.

Answered by Theresa Villiers

The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 does not include any reference to the Child Poverty Act 2010.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 22 Feb 2016
Northern Ireland (Stormont Agreement and Implementation Plan) Bill

"Given that the welfare reform legislation was microwaved through here and that this Bill will be fast-tracked, can the Secretary of State give an undertaking that the legacy Bill will not be fast-tracked and that her commitment to building consensus will extend to proper consideration for victims and the wider …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 22 Feb 2016
Northern Ireland (Stormont Agreement and Implementation Plan) Bill

"I join my right hon. and hon. Friends and colleagues in acknowledging the presence of the hon. Member for Tewkesbury (Mr Robertson), who is diligent as the Chair of the Select Committee. He has suffered a close personal loss in the untimely death of Mark Calway and he has the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 22 Feb 2016
Northern Ireland (Stormont Agreement and Implementation Plan) Bill

"My colleagues have signed a petition of concern against a current proposal. [Interruption.] It is a matter of trying to protect existing laws and not change them rashly before an election. The DUP has cited that in relation to other matters. It is about defending the existing equality …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 22 Feb 2016
Northern Ireland (Stormont Agreement and Implementation Plan) Bill

"I thank the hon. Lady for her kind condolences, which I will certainly pass on. I accept them in the spirit in which she has shared them—not just on her own behalf but on behalf of her colleagues as well. Of course, whenever we experience the shock of death like …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 22 Feb 2016
Northern Ireland (Stormont Agreement and Implementation Plan) Bill

"Does the Minister agree that when investigating the past, the police ombudsman has always respected such matters fully? It has never breached or compromised anybody’s interest in that regard, so surely others could be trusted to adhere to the same standard?


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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 22 Feb 2016
Northern Ireland (Stormont Agreement and Implementation Plan) Bill

"On that basis, given that these organisations need to be rightly blamed and indicted for what they did, does the Minister now regret that the British Government for so long maintained the UDA’s status as a legal organisation and consistently refused to proscribe it?..."
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