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All of Dr Steve Aiken OBE’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
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To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail (i) any discussions her Department has had with HM Government, around the announcement on 22 December 2025 that the European Commission and the United Kingdom should work towards the participation of the United Kingdom in the European Union’s internal electricity market,…
Assessment details for Written question AQW 37779/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 37779/22-27
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail (i) the Chinese officials she met on her recent visit to China; (ii) whether her Department will publish the minutes of any meetings she had; (iii) whether an official from her Department was present at each meeting she attended; (iii) the cost of the visit, in (a)…
Assessment details for Written question AQW 37777/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 37777/22-27
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure for her assessment of the safety of pupils, who now walk along pavements that are untreated for ice and are poorly lit, for up to 0.9 miles in Ballyclare, due to the recent decision by Translink and her Department's officials to reroute the school bus services. [R]
Assessment details for Written question AQW 37776/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 37776/22-27
To ask the Minister of Health for an update on his Department's current financial position.
Assessment details for Oral question AQO 2922/22-27 Official Assembly record for Oral question AQO 2922/22-27
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, in light of the December 2025 Comptroller and Auditor General’s (C&AG) Report on Financial Audit Findings 2025 – Central Government, where his Department's accounts where qualified in respect to the discrepancy between the provision his Department made…
Assessment details for Written question AQW 37308/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 37308/22-27
To ask the Minister for the Economy whether she will place a copy of the notes that her officials took when meeting with Peoples Republic of China officials, on her latest visit, in the Assembly library.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 37307/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 37307/22-27
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail any legal mechanism that allows the Strategic Investment Board (SIB) to make Financial Transactional Capital loans, when the Comptroller and Auditor General’s Report on Financial Audit Findings 2024 – Central Government states that the SIB does not have…
Assessment details for Written question AQW 37215/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 37215/22-27
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail, in light of the Comptroller and Auditor General's findings (i) whether a review of the accounting and allocation of Financial Transactional Capital (FTC) will be undertaken; and (ii) the reason FTC assets and liabilities are reported on within the Executive group accounts.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 37218/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 37218/22-27
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail (i) any direction she has given to Invest NI on investment decisions on the Peoples Republic of China, in light of the United Nations Human Rights 2022 report on its assessment of human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and also by the US Department…
Assessment details for Written question AQW 37219/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 37219/22-27
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail (i) any actions she is taking to ensure that there is no repeat of Northern Ireland Tourist Board irregular expenditure; and (ii) who is being held accountable for the irregular audit circumstances, given her Department's and its arm's-length bodies' accounts being…
Assessment details for Written question AQW 37217/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 37217/22-27
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail (i) any (a) disciplinary; and (b) restorative, action her Department is taking, following her Department's accounts being disclaimed by the Comptroller and Auditor General for a second time.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 37216/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 37216/22-27
Minister, from doing my maths, I see that the health pay shortfall is now about £140 million, despite the £109 million overspend that you agreed with the Health Minister. The resource allocation in this monitoring round is far short of the £100 million that the Health Minister was told in October was available; that…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: December Monitoring Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: December Monitoring
The Ulster Unionist Party opposes this unconstitutional motion and the amendment. I shall outline our reasons for doing so. There is no doubt that the decision by all the people of the United Kingdom to leave the European Union has had far-ranging and highly disruptive consequences not only here but across Europe. The…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: European Parliament Observer Status Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: European Parliament Observer Status
I know that it is not your particular responsibility, Minister, but, because you are looking at Civil Service reform, I will put this question to you. I have been waiting for well over a month for a response from the Senior Civil Service about how it sets its criteria for bonus payments, and I would like to know…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Civil Service: Openness and Transparency Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Civil Service: Openness and Transparency
Minister, one of the big issues about discretionary spending is that it tends to disappear into the arm's-length bodies (ALBs), and one of the biggest issues that we have is controlling and seeing what is in the ALBs. Has any progress been made on having more openness and transparency on ALBs? That would be a real…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Departmental Discretionary Spend Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Departmental Discretionary Spend
First, I apologise and correct the record: in my remarks earlier, I should have referred to the Putin apologists Sinn Féin MEPs Lynn Boylan and Kathleen Funchion rather than Maria Walsh. Thank you very much indeed, Linda, for picking that up. I will contact Maria and point out my failure. The point remains, however. I…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Multi-year Budget Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Multi-year Budget
It is now 11 years since the West first turned a blind eye to Putin's aggression against the Ukraine. In February and March 2014, his little green men invaded Crimea. In April of that year, Putin annexed Crimea and increased his military presence in the Donbas, again with minimal response from the West. We have talked…
Assessment details for Member's statement: Defending Ukraine Official Assembly record for Member's statement: Defending Ukraine
Dr Aiken asked the Minister of Finance, given that he has many broad responsibilities, some of which relate to Civil Service reform, for an update on what he expects the Civil Service to do about the fact that the two recent COVID-19 inquiry reports very clearly show that it does not seem to have learnt lessons about…
Assessment details for Topical question AQT 1822/22-27 Official Assembly record for Topical question AQT 1822/22-27
Sorry. In that case, I do not have a question for you, First Minister.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Executive Office in Brussels: Capacity Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Executive Office in Brussels: Capacity
My apologies, Mr Speaker. I did not think that I was down for a question.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Executive Office in Brussels: Capacity Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Executive Office in Brussels: Capacity
To ask the Minister of Justice to outline the number of cases of non-fatal strangulation that have reached the Crown Court compared to a Magistrates' Court in 2025.
Assessment details for Oral question AQO 2792/22-27 Official Assembly record for Oral question AQO 2792/22-27
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail (i) the devolved competencies of the NI Executive; and (ii) under what vires the Minister for the Economy can claim, contrary to the Northern Ireland Act 1998, non-transferred powers and competency in reserved matters, namely matters of defence,…
Assessment details for Written question AQW 35860/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 35860/22-27
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister when they will answer AQW 32266/22-27.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 35856/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 35856/22-27
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail any discussions she has had with trade unions, including Unite the Union, in relation to Northern Ireland’s defence industry, in light of the union's statement regarding the defence review in June 2025, on the need to translate defence spending into British growth, British…
Assessment details for Written question AQW 35859/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 35859/22-27
To ask the Minister for the Economy, in relation to her comments in the Assembly on 17 November 2025 in respect of the defence industry, whether her Department has carried out any assessment on the potential impact of any objections and sanctions from the United States of America against her Department, as to that…
Assessment details for Written question AQW 35858/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 35858/22-27
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