Written question AQW 49104/22-27

Written question by Mr Gerry Carroll on .

MLA
Mr Gerry Carroll
Party at the time
People Before Profit Alliance
Date
19 June 2026
Type
Written question
Assembly reference
AQW 49104/22-27
Department
Department for Communities
Business
To the Minister for Communities
Assembly identifier
Document 491496

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Text

To ask the Minister for Communities whether he intervened to remove his Department’s signature from the West Belfast Partnership board’s anti-racist statement.

22 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Assessment

Not flagged

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: 0.47 (flagging needs at least 0.70; at or below 0.30 is not flagged).
  • Criteria met: Controversy escalation (0.61).
  • The text reports, quotes or asks about the framing rather than adopting it (0.65).
  • Subject area: Immigration, asylum, race, ethnicity and Travellers.
  • 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

Probability that each statement is true of this text (0 = no, 1 = yes). A criterion counts as met at 0.60 or above.
QuestionProbabilityMet?
Identity framing0.20No
Sectarian or communal antagonism0.02No
Cultural grievance politics0.36No
Dog-whistle messaging0.12No
Controversy escalation0.61Yes
Legitimate policy scrutiny0.42No
Overall judgement0.47Between thresholds
Context and attribution (stance)
OptionProbability
No identity-based framing0.22
Reports or questions it (chosen)0.65
Criticises or condemns it0.00
Adopts it0.13
Subject area (top five)
SubjectProbability
Immigration, asylum, race, ethnicity and Travellers0.94
Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations0.06
No identity-related subject0.00
Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials0.00
Parades, bonfires and commemorations0.00

Assessed 21 October 2026 at 07:11 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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