Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to his oral contribution of 13 November 2017, Official Report, column 72, if he will confirm that the independent assessment being undertaken into the continued payment of MLA salaries in the absence of a functioning Assembly will be published; and if he will make a statement.

I can confirm that I intend to publish Mr Reaney’s advice as to how we should approach pay and allowances for Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly in the continued absence of an Executive.