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Ms Cara Hunter: Assembly records
All of Ms Cara Hunter’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the number of (i) GCSE; (ii) AS Level; and (iii) A-level, examination results subject to a review of marking, broken down by (a) awarding body; (b) qualification; (c) the number resulting in no change to the candidate’s mark; (d) the number resulting in an increase in the…
To ask the Minister of Education whether any assessment has been undertaken by his Department of the impact on children from socially disadvantaged circumstances of removing the statutory admissions priority before universal full-time pre-school education provision is available.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any arrangements in place to monitor the performance and quality of domiciliary care providers commissioned by Health and Social Care Trusts, including (i) the frequency of inspections, audits or quality reviews; and (ii) any action taken where a provider is found to be failing…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the number of complaints received regarding missed, significantly delayed or inadequately delivered domiciliary care visits, including visits delivered by independent-sector providers; and (ii) any actions taken in response, in each of the last five years, broken down by…
To ask the Minister of Education whether he has given any consideration to replicating the Republic of Ireland’s school-specific survey of parents and guardians, which sought views on the future ethos and type of local school provision, in order to ensure that parental preferences inform future decisions on education…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the number of pupils, who previously received home to school taxi transport, who have, for the 2026-27 academic year, been offered a mileage allowance instead of direct transport by the Education Authority.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the number of home to school transport contracts put out to tender more than once in the 2026-2027 academic year due to the Education Authority being unable to secure a suitable provider.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of occasions on which the PSNI was called to attend mental health inpatient facilities, in each of the last five years, broken down by Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail, as at 10 September 2026, (i) the number of pupils who have yet to secure home-to-school transport, broken down by those awaiting (a) bus; and (b) taxi, provision; and (ii) the number of taxi contracts that remain outstanding.
To ask the Minister of Education whether any assessment has been made by his Department of whether categorising all pupils who are neither Protestant nor Roman Catholic as other or none provides sufficient information to assess the diversity and community background of pupils within schools.
To ask the Minister of Education whether his Department has made any assessment of the reasons why transformed schools have subsequently not maintained a balanced community representation, including any steps he will take to address this.
To ask the Minister of Education whether he will consider including a category for pupils who identify as having a mixed or cross-community background in the proposed monitoring of community background, for the purposes of assessing reasonable numbers.
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail, for each of the last five financial years, the number of (i) psychologists employed by the Northern Ireland Prison Service; (ii) funded psychology posts, (iii) vacant psychology posts; (iv) occasions on which psychologists from outside Northern Ireland were engaged or seconded…
To ask the Minister of Education in respect of each of the 27 recommendations of the Independent Review of Teacher Workload, to detail any action taken to date including (i) the date on which the action was completed or is scheduled to be completed; (ii) the number of recommendations fully implemented; and (iii) the…
To ask the Minister of Education whether any assessment has been made of the potential cost to (i) schools; and (ii) the Education Authority, of legal challenges to school uniform policies that prevent girls from wearing trousers, including legal costs incurred by schools in defending such challenges.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) any circumstances in which the Education Authority is required to retender an existing home-to-school taxi route for a pupil with special educational needs, including where the existing provider remains willing and able to provide the service; and (ii) any arrangements…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) the estimated cost of developing and providing the (a) textbooks; (b) teaching and learning materials; (c) digital resources; and (d) assessment materials, required to support implementation of the proposed Northern Ireland Curriculum 2028 from September 2027; and (ii)…
To ask the Minister of Education whether any assessment has been made of (i) the impact on Irish-medium consultees of seeking views on the proposed statutory curriculum framework before publication of the bespoke Irish-medium curriculum strands; and (ii) whether his Department considers that consultees have sufficient…
To ask the Minister of Education, in light of the increase in Specialist Provision in Mainstream Schools from 316 classes in 2021-2022 to 723 classes in 2025-2026, whether any assessment has been undertaken by his Department of whether this expansion has been matched by sufficient numbers of appropriately qualified…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail, for the 2026 summer scheme programme, (i) the number of children who (a) applied for a place; (b) were offered a place; and (c) were unsuccessful in securing a place; (ii) the number of places available; and (iii) the distribution of summer scheme provision in days,…
To ask the Minister of Education whether any assessment has been made of whether consultees are able to provide fully informed responses on the proposed statutory curriculum framework in the absence of the supporting pedagogical principles, assessment arrangements, curriculum adaptations, implementation guidance and…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the (i) membership; (ii) terms of reference; (iii) governance arrangements; and (iv) decision-making authority, of the Curriculum Taskforce established to take forward Curriculum 2028, including where final responsibility rests for determining curriculum content.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any recommendations contained within the Strategic Review of the Northern Ireland Curriculum that his Department has (i) accepted in full; (ii) accepted in part; (iii) deferred; and (iv) rejected, including the rationale for each decision.
To ask the Minister of Education whether any assessment has been made of Emotional Based School Non-Attendance attendance code data regarding (i) attendance recovery rates; and (ii) the effectiveness of interventions in reducing long-term absence.