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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 05 Mar 2019
Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) Bill

"On that point—[Laughter.]..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 05 Mar 2019
Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) Bill

"I have listened carefully to what the shadow Secretary of State has said, and he has made some very reasonable points. I would like to ask him two questions. First, it seems that there is little movement, and we can blame a lot of different people, but at the end …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 05 Mar 2019
Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) Bill

"I do not quite understand the point the shadow Secretary of State is making. If a council is failing to deliver the services we would expect from it, the Government step in and deliver them, as we have seen in Northamptonshire. We have a situation in the Province where there …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 05 Mar 2019
Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) Bill

"It is clear that the hon. Gentleman does not want to talk about this issue, but it is vital, when we are talking about money that will go to schemes to develop the whole argument about victims, that we address the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 05 Mar 2019
Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) Bill

"Can I, in all fairness, challenge the Minister on the way he congratulated the hon. Member for Rochdale (Tony Lloyd) in relation to direct rule? If direct rule is not the answer today, when will it be and, if it is not the answer soon, why?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 05 Mar 2019
Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) Bill

"I say this with all due respect: I enjoyed the passionate speech of the hon. Member for Walthamstow (Stella Creasy). I may not have agreed with every word, but frankly I agreed with the vast majority, even though I am a passionate believer in devolution.

I have sat in the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 05 Mar 2019
Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) Bill

"Will the right hon. Gentleman give me two seconds? I am in a flow.

I have raised the issue with shadow Front Benchers and my own—I was a Northern Ireland Minister for a considerable period—because we have to address it. Perhaps I will come back to that point after the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 05 Mar 2019
Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) Bill

"I cannot disagree with a single word that my right hon. Friend has said. This cannot continue; we cannot sit in a situation where there is no way of looking properly at how civil servants are spending taxpayers’ money. That is not the principle of this democracy, and it is …..."
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Written Question

Monday 7th January 2019

Asked by: Mike Penning (Conservative - Hemel Hempstead)

Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many non-disclosure agreements her Department has entered into in each year since 2005.

Answered by Karen Bradley

Information prior to 2011 is not held. Since 2011, my Department has entered into four non-disclosure agreements.