Written question AQW 52716/22-27
Written question by Ms Cheryl Brownlee on .
- MLA
- Ms Cheryl Brownlee
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 22 September 2026
- Type
- Written question
- Assembly reference
- AQW 52716/22-27
- Department
- Department of Finance
- Business
- To the Minister of Finance
- Assembly identifier
- Document 499793
Read the official Assembly record Open Data source
Text
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail (i) how the use of personal preference statements, in shortlisting candidates for Administrative Officer posts, takes account of the diversity of these roles, including posts involving predominantly standalone, routine or repetitive administrative work; and (ii) any assessment his Department has made of the risk that this approach may disadvantage candidates who are capable of adapting to both team-based and independent working environments.
70 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Assessment
Jev’s structured answers met the documented threshold for “not qualifying”.
- Overall probability that the activity is being used to promote, exploit or escalate an identity-based controversy: 0.10 (qualifying needs at least 0.70; at or below 0.30 is not qualifying).
- None of the five culture-war criteria was met (each was below 0.60).
- Assessed as legitimate policy scrutiny (0.88).
- No identity-based framing was identified (0.97).
- The overall probability was at or below the not-qualifying threshold.
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 | 0.06 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.02 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.02 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.04 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.06 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.88 | Yes |
| Overall judgement | 0.10 | At or below not-qualifying threshold |
| Option | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-based framing (chosen) | 0.97 |
| Reports or questions it | 0.02 |
| Criticises or condemns it | 0.00 |
| Adopts it | 0.01 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-related subject | 0.50 |
| Sexism, misogyny, ageism and other equality groups | 0.23 |
| Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations | 0.08 |
| Another identity-related subject | 0.07 |
| Immigration, asylum, race, ethnicity and Travellers | 0.05 |
Assessed 21 October 2026 at 07:47 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.
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