Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Dunlop on 1 December (HL3644), which UK members and UK associate members attended the British–Irish Parliamentary Assembly in Cheltenham on 16 and 17 November.

The Northern Ireland Office is not responsible for the administration of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly.

However, I am advised by the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly secretariat that the following full members of the UK delegation to the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly took part in the Assembly’s plenary session held in Cheltenham from 15 to 17 November 2015:

David Anderson MP

Lord Bew

Baroness Blood

Andrew Bridgen MP

Deidre Brock MP

Oliver Colvile MP

Lord Dubs

Mark Durkan MP

Paul Farrelly MP

Lord Glentoran

Helen Jones MP

Danny Kinahan MP

Rt Hon Lord Mawhinney

Conor McGinn MP

Nigel Mills MP

Laurence Robertson MP

Andrew Rosindell MP

Lord Skelmersdale

Robin Walker MP.

In addition, a number of full and associate members who had initially committed to attend the plenary session withdrew at short notice.