Written question AQW 34605/22-27
Written question by Ms Kellie Armstrong on .
- MLA
- Ms Kellie Armstrong
- Party at the time
- Alliance Party
- Date
- 4 November 2025
- Type
- Written question
- Assembly reference
- AQW 34605/22-27
- Department
- Department of Education
- Business
- To the Minister of Education
- Assembly identifier
- Document 457459
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Text
To ask the Minister of Education to provide a copy of his, or his Special Adviser’s, instruction to departmental officials to promote his activities in Israel on the Department of Education social media channels during his visit in October 2025.
40 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Assessment
Jev’s structured answers met the documented threshold for “not flagged”.
- Overall probability that the activity is being used to promote, exploit or escalate an identity-based controversy: 0.41 (flagging needs at least 0.70; at or below 0.30 is not flagged).
- Criteria met: Controversy escalation (0.66).
- No identity-based framing was identified (0.87).
- The overall probability was low and the text did not adopt any identity-based framing.
This is an AI-generated assessment of the text, made against published criteria. It is not a finding of fact about the MLA or their intentions. The Assembly record itself is the fact.
Jev’s structured answers
| Question | Probability | Met? |
|---|---|---|
| Identity framing | 0.10 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.04 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.16 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.16 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.66 | Yes |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.20 | No |
| Overall judgement | 0.41 | Between thresholds |
| Option | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-based framing (chosen) | 0.87 |
| Reports or questions it | 0.08 |
| Criticises or condemns it | 0.00 |
| Adopts it | 0.05 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-related subject | 0.64 |
| Another identity-related subject | 0.15 |
| Religion and belief (including people of no religion), churches, faith communities and religious prejudice (including antisemitism and anti-Muslim prejudice) | 0.11 |
| Education structures, integration and community division | 0.04 |
| Immigration, asylum, race, ethnicity and Travellers | 0.02 |
Assessed 21 October 2026 at 04:58 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.
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