HL Deb 22 January 2004 vol 657 cc143-4WA
Lord Laird

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Why for the second successive year the Government of Eire have unilaterally set the budget of the Ulster-Scots Agency by announcing in November their proportion of the budget without any discussions or any possibility of changing proportionality between the Government and the Eire Government. [HL600]

Baroness Amos

I have nothing further to add to my answers to HL 272, HL 300 and HL 302 (Official Report,19 January 2004; col. WA 117).