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 of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs whether he has approached His Majesty's Government to seek a delay in the implementation of the Emissions Trading Scheme in the maritime sector that is due to be implemented on 1 July 2026, in light of rising maritime fuel costs linked to the…
Assessment details for Written question AQW 46573/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 46573/22-27
To ask the Minister for the Economy pursuant to AQT 2363/22-27, to detail any actions she will take to encourage Queen's University Belfast to (i) address antisemitism; and (ii) arrange a meeting with the Vice Chancellor, given that the Vice Chancellor has not facilitated a meeting with me and other MLAs and that the…
Assessment details for Written question AQW 46575/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 46575/22-27
To ask the Minister for the Economy, in light of the Prime Minister's remarks on the 5 May 2026 that there will be zero tolerance for inaction on antisemitism in universities in the United Kingdom, to detail any actions she is taking to ensure universities in Northern Ireland are audited for antisemitism, including…
Assessment details for Written question AQW 46574/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 46574/22-27
Will the Member give way?
Not analysed
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Constitutional Change Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Constitutional Change
Will the Member take an intervention?
Not analysed
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Constitutional Change Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Constitutional Change
Today is Opposition day, when, yet again, we have an ill-disguised motion from the SDLP that is attempting to make the case for a united Ireland. This time, the proposition is made on the basis of the local government election results in Great Britain. No matter how much the SDLP may dislike the results of the…
Constitutional question, Brexit, the Windsor Framework and sovereignty Criteria met: Identity framing, Dog-whistle messaging.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Constitutional Change Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Constitutional Change
On Thursday evening, Kyiv was struck by a mass missile strike from Putin's forces that killed at least 24 innocent people. The attack destroyed an apartment block in a residential part of the city: a city and people targeted just because they were Ukrainians; Ukrainians who do not want to succumb to the nationalist…
Decided on a second assessment.
Assessment details for Member's statement: Kyiv Air Strike Official Assembly record for Member's statement: Kyiv Air Strike
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail the (i) names; and (ii) roles, of all current Senior Civil Service personnel.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 46352/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 46352/22-27
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail when he will publish the open book review for wider scrutiny by the Assembly.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 46349/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 46349/22-27
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail any discussions she has had with the Ministry of Defence to ensure that Northern Ireland receives a proportionate amount of defence procurement spending following the national security announcements in the King’s Speech 2026.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 46353/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 46353/22-27
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any (i) Capital Departmental Expenditure Limit (CDEL) she has transferred from flagship infrastructure projects back to the Department of Finance in the (a) 2023-24; (b) 2024-25; and (c) 2025-26 financial years; and (ii) anticipated CDEL returns in the 2026-27 financial…
Assessment details for Written question AQW 46351/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 46351/22-27
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the cost to date of (i) legal; and (ii) consultancy services, on the A4 Enniskillen Southern Bypass.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 46350/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 46350/22-27
The multi-year Budget, by any reasonable assessment, is highly likely to be worth over £60 billion over the next three years, and it would set a financial framework and direction of travel around which the Northern Ireland Executive could coalesce. That figure can be derived from the allocations of the multi-year…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Budget 2026-29/2030: Reports Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Budget 2026-29/2030: Reports
The election results represent a sad time for those who lost their seats. As a member of the steering group of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly and a member of the steering committee of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, I know how much has been provided to those organisations by Members who, sadly,…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Scottish Election and Welsh Election Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Scottish Election and Welsh Election
Thank you very much, Mr Speaker, for the opportunity to talk on the matter. Article 2 and article 2 compliance has always been a matter of considerable difficulty with the Windsor framework. The Windsor framework was designed primarily to be a trade deal. It was designed to make sure that there would be free movement…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Dillon Judicial Review Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Dillon Judicial Review
To ask the Minister for the Economy, in light of the recent £50 million Defence Growth Deal, to detail (i) any direction she has given to Invest NI to support our growing defence companies, in the small and medium-sized sectors; and (ii) any proposals she has made to match this level of defence investment by the…
Assessment details for Written question AQW 45717/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 45717/22-27
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail any direction she has given Invest NI on attracting investment from the United States of America, in particular to companies that are also connected to (i) IT; (ii) aerospace; (iii) life sciences; (iv) Artificial Intelligence; (v) cyber; and (vi) agri-business, based in…
Assessment details for Written question AQW 45716/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 45716/22-27
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail any direction she has given Invest NI regarding attracting investment from the United States of America, particularly in relation to companies with connections to the United States of America or to allied defence industries.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 45715/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 45715/22-27
To ask the Minister for the Economy, in light of the evidence from the Utility Regulator to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee on 22 April 2026, that recoupling to the GB electricity market would result in a 20 per cent wholesale reduction in the price of electricity in Northern Ireland, to detail any actions she…
Assessment details for Written question AQW 45714/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 45714/22-27
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail (i) the legal and planning consultant costs accrued by her Department, to date, spent on the (a) A5 Western Transport Corridor; (b) York Street Interchange project; (c) Hightown Incinerator; and (d) A4 Enniskillen Bypass; and (ii) which legal firms and planning…
Assessment details for Written question AQW 45718/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 45718/22-27
I thank the Minister for giving way. An OECD report — I would have to check in which year — very much refers to the ability to be examined against economics and also against inputs and outputs. That is the one thing that we are missing because it is not legislated for.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Fiscal Council Bill: Consideration Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Fiscal Council Bill: Consideration Stage
I thank Members for their discussion points so far. The Ulster Unionist Party will support amendment Nos 1, 2, 3 and 5. I will take Members back in time to when the process of putting a fiscal council in place was first mooted as part of the Stormont House Agreement. I was not around in politics back then, but, when…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Fiscal Council Bill: Consideration Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Fiscal Council Bill: Consideration Stage
I thank the Member for giving way. The Member will be aware that the recent Fiscal Council report quoted that, based on an analysis of like-for-like delivery of public services, there were 1·88 civil servants here for every one in England and Wales. The Ulster Unionist Party will support amendment No 5 because the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Fiscal Council Bill: Consideration Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Fiscal Council Bill: Consideration Stage
I thank the Member for giving way. This is just a short intervention. We had the recent debacle of the Treasury's open-book exercise and its sudden discovery of £3·5 billion of savings that, it reckons, we could have. Does the Member agree that that would not have arisen, had the principle of the Fiscal Council…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Fiscal Council Bill: Consideration Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Fiscal Council Bill: Consideration Stage
First Minister, last week, the Windsor Framework Democratic Scrutiny Committee was in Brussels and had briefings from the excellent Office of the Northern Ireland Executive, which is not the most catchily named office. It came out that the additional staff there are only there on a year-by-year basis. If we are…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: European Union Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: European Union
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