All of Mr Nick Mathison’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
I support the motion. It is imperative that we have a Programme for Government that provides clarity, direction and transparency for the road to be travelled by the Northern Ireland Executive in this shortened mandate. After the unnecessary and damaging suspension of the institutions came to an end earlier this year,…
To ask the Minister of Education whether he will provide an uplift in the aggregated schools budget for 2024-25 to ensure schools are resourced to live within their means.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 7703/22-27, how he will ensure that the numbers of children not attending school due to emotionally-based school avoidance are recorded and monitored.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 7707/22-27, for his assessment of the statement contained in the final Fair Start Report, in relation to academic selection, that, as a panel, we feel that addressing this systemic inequality should be a priority going forward.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 6946/22-27, (i) for his assessment of the value of Continuing Professional Development; and (ii) how he will ensure that it is resourced.
To ask the Minister of Education for an update on his engagement with the Minister for the Economy on the implementation of the 14-19 Education and Training Framework.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 6695/22-27, to detail the workstreams that have been established to take forward the recommendations outlined in the Landscape Review of Education Authority.
To ask the Minister of Finance for an update on engagement she has had with HM Treasury in relation to the re-profiling of funds to support the Non-Teaching Staff Pay and Grading Review.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the steps he is taking to ensure that the Education Authority provide clarity in the decision-making process for funding arrangements and allocations for the community and voluntary youth work sector.
Has the Minister considered formally incorporating the concept of green budgeting into the Budget process, drawing on the experience of other jurisdictions such as France?
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the amount of capital funding allocated to the nine capital bids his Department made as part of the Department of Finance information gathering exercise to inform the Executive’s consideration of Budget 2024-25.
To ask the Minister of Education what consideration he has given to undertaking work to better understand the value of youth work, similar to the Economic Value of Youth Work report by UK Youth and Frontier Economics.
To ask the Minister of Education for an update on the internal consultation process which was taking place in his Department on the findings of the Independent Review of Education.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail how much resource funding was allocated to the nine resource bids his Department made as part of the Department of Finance information gathering exercise to inform the Executive’s consideration of Budget 2024-25.