Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps he is taking to promote whistleblowing in his Department.

The Northern Ireland Office's whistleblowing policy is made available to all staff on the Department’s intranet and regularly promoted through blogs and annual awareness days; the next planned awareness day is 21 September 2017. In addition, the Department's Management Board is committed to the highest standards of openness, honesty and accountability and has designated the lead non-executive and an executive board member with responsibility for the promotion of whistleblowing across the wider Northern Ireland Office family.