HC Deb 23 October 2002 vol 391 c363W
Miss McIntosh

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent progress has been made towards decommissioning. [74002]

Jane Kennedy

The IRA has engaged in two acts of decommissioning. It is imperative that all paramilitary organisations now, as the Prime Minister said, move to acts of completion of the transition to exclusively peaceful means, real, total and permanent.