| Heading: |
Terrorism: Northern Ireland |
| Question ID: |
1758610 |
| UIN: |
26377 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-24 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5262 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Alex Easton
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Alex Easton
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make it his policy to prevent payments to people who were interned in the 1970s. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-03 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
413 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Hilary Benn
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| Answering Member handle: |
hilarybennmp
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@hilarybennmp
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
Sections 46 and 47 of the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 have been found by the Northern Ireland courts to be incompatible with the UK’s human rights obligations. The Government is committed to bringing forward new legacy l... |
| Original answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
21 |
| Answering body name: |
Northern Ireland Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |