HC Deb 17 June 2002 vol 387 cc65-6W
Mrs. Iris Robinson

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the attendance record for(a) elected and (b) non-elected members of the Police Board of Northern Ireland has been at (i) full Police Board meetings and (ii) Police Board sub-committee meetings since the Board went live. [60765]

Jane Kennedy

The information is provided (by alphabetical order) in the following tables. The reference to sub-committees of the Policing Board has been taken to mean committees of the board, established under paragraph 24 of schedule 1 to the Police (NI) Act 2000. Some committees have sub-committees, details of which have not been included.

Elected members of Northern Ireland Policing Board
Number of attendances at:
Full name Board meetings Committees Number of possible committee meetings
Mr. Alex Attwood MLA 10 9 9
Mr Joe Byrne MLA 10 12 12
Mr. Fred Cobain MLA 10 9 12
Mr. Sam Foster MLA1 6 2 4
Mr. William Hay MLA 10 6 8
Lord Kilclooney MLA 7 1 8
Elected members of Northern Ireland Policing Board
Number of attendances at:
Full name Board meetings Committees Number of possible committee meetings
Mr. Alan McFarland MLA1 6 5 5
Mr. Eddy McGrady MLA 9 6 214
Mr. Ian Paisley Jnr MLA 10 4 8
Mr. Sammy Wilson MLA 10 11 14
1 Appointed from February 2002
2 Substitutes nominated on six occasions
Non-elected members of Northern Ireland Policing Board
Number of attendances at:
Full name Board meetings Committees Number of possible committee meetings
Mr, Denis Bradley 10 13 13
Viscount Brookeborough 9 8 9
Mr. Brian Dougherty 10 7 7
Mr. Barry Gilligan 10 13 14
Mr. Tom Kelly 8 4 5
Mrs. Pauline McCabe 9 15 16
Mrs. Rosaleen Moore 10 5 7
Professor Desmond Rea 10 9 12
Mr. Suneil Sharma 6 12 16