Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Answer of 18 December 2017 to Question 119152, on what date the decision was taken to publish the findings of the Reaney review of the salaries and staff allowances of members of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

As has been made clear in the former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland’s letter to Mr Reaney on 12 November commissioning his advice, it was always the Northern Ireland Office’s intention to publish it.

The letter is available on the Northern Ireland Office website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/secretary-of-state-announces-advice-on-mla-pay