Question to the Northern Ireland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, further to the Answer of 1 April 2019 to Question 237193, to what sections of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 that answer refers.
Amendments to section 71 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 are planned in order to address the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission’s ‘own motion’ legal standing to bring challenges under the Human Rights Act 1998.