All of Mr Timothy Gaston’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
To ask the Minister of Health whether any new productivity, performance or delivery-related conditions were incorporated into the contracts or pay arrangements of Health and Social Care Trust chief executives as part of the revised pay framework.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the reasons why pay increases for Health and Social Care Trust chief executives were considered necessary; and (ii) any assessment made of Health and Social Care productivity and service performance prior to approving the revised pay framework.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail whether any element of the revised Health and Social Care Trust (HSC) Senior Executive Pay Framework involved backdated or retrospective pay, including (i) the period covered by any back pay; (ii) the total cost; (iii) the number of HSC Trust chief executives and other senior…
Cass Assessment Report for Gender Identity Services To ask the Minister of Health to make a statement to the Assembly on the decision for Northern Ireland to participate in a UK-wide clinical trial assessing the use of life altering puberty-blocking drugs, and the subsequent decision to suspend that participation,…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail (i) the investment provided to increase the capacity of the Ballymena Wastewater Treatment Works in each of the last five years; and (ii) the number of additional connections this investment permitted, broken down by area.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether priority will be given to investing in areas where mitigation measures, such as storm-water offsetting, is not permitted to achieving a connection.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure, in light of the foul sewer capacity on the Ballymena Road, Cullybackey, being classified as a closed catchment to all new developments that will see an intensification of foul sewage discharge, to detail any investment that has been assigned to allow future connections in this…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the future investment planned for Ballymena Wastewater Treatment Works to permit additional connections to the foul sewer network, including the areas of Ballymena and surrounding villages that will benefit from this investment.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure, pursuant to AQW 29800/22-27, for an updated position in relation to the capacity for intensification of foul sewage discharge in Cullybackey.
From the get-go, there are several major problems with the motion. The first, surprisingly, given those who tabled it, goes to the heart of the Belfast Agreement. It does not simply call on the United Kingdom Government to act but demands that a programme of institutional reform be co-facilitated by the UK and Irish…
FlaggedConstitutional question, Brexit, the Windsor Framework and sovereigntyCriteria met: Identity framing, Dog-whistle messaging, Controversy escalation.
Now that the nationalist and republican alliance sanction to exclude me from the Chamber has been served, I take the opportunity to put on record a number of things about breathegate. First, I want the House to know that, when the First Minister of no alternative appeared before the Executive Office Committee last…
To ask the Minister of Justice whether her Department has assessed the impact of inconsistent sex and gender recording practices, as identified in the Independent review of data, statistics and research on sex and gender carried out by Professor Alice Sullivan, on the integrity and comparability of crime statistics…
To ask the Minister of Justice (i) whether her Department relies on police-recorded crime data in the development of justice policy, safeguarding frameworks and the allocation of resources; and (ii) to detail any assurance her Department has in relation to the consistency and reliability of that data where differing…
To ask the Minister of Justice whether any alternative statutory powers are available to deal with a child aged 10 to 13 who commits attempted murder, arson with intent to endanger life, armed robbery, firearms offences or serious sexual assault, if such offences are no longer prosecutable under the proposed amendment.
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail the number of children aged 10 to 13 that have been charged with criminal offences in each of the last ten years, broken down by offence category.
To ask the Minister of Finance, pursuant to AQW 37736/22-27, whether he will give an assurance that any decision to renew the relationship with Stonewall will be brought to the Executive for approval.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any steps that are taken to ensure his Department’s handling of records connected to Assembly Written Questions complies with Section 46 Code of Practice issued under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
To ask the Minister of Health, in relation to cases where draft answers and associated correspondence are not retained, to detail the assurance his Department can provide that answers to Assembly Written Questions have not been materially altered or delayed during clearance.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the steps his Department takes to ensure transparency and accountability in the Ministerial clearance process when it does not retain any drafts, internal submissions or clearance records relating to the preparation of answers to Assembly Written Questions.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the governance arrangements that exist to ensure that an auditable record of political clearance when comments, amendments or instructions from officials, the Minister or his Special Adviser on draft answers to Assembly Written Questions are not retained.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) his Department’s policy on the retention and destruction of emails and correspondence relating to the drafting and clearance of answers to Assembly Written Questions; and (ii) whether such material is routinely deleted.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail (i) the criteria that is applied when assigning a Freedom of Information request within their Department; and (ii) whether record authors may request that such cases be assigned to them.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail the number of Freedom of Information requests that have been assigned to the First Minister's Principal Private Secretary in each of the last two years.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister for their assessment of the departmental policy which authorises an official who authored a record of a ministerial meeting to have responsibility for handling a Freedom of Information request seeking the disclosure of that record.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to provide the GDP growth rates for (i) Northern Ireland; (ii) Great Britain; and (iii) the United Kingdom as a whole for (a) 2020; (b) 2021; (c) 2022; (d) 2023; (e) 2024; and (f) 2025.