Oral question AQO 1647/22-27

Oral question by Ms Paula Bradshaw on 20 February 2025.

MLA: Ms Paula Bradshaw
Party at the time: Alliance Party
Date: 20 February 2025
Type: Oral question
Assembly reference: AQO 1647/22-27
Department: Department for Communities
Business: To the Minister for Communities
Assembly identifier: Document 429220

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Text

To ask the Minister for Communities to outline the timeline for the development of the Gender Strategy, as set out in New Decade, New Approach.

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

Follow-ups by the same MLA in the Chamber

These were assessed together with this record:

3 March 2025 – Thank you, Minister, for the update. I was glad to see, in the Programme for Government that we are debating today, the…

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: 0.06 (flagging needs at least 0.70; at or below 0.30 is not flagged).
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 (1.00).
Subject area: Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues.
The overall probability was at or below the not-flagging 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

Probability that each statement is true of this text (0 = no, 1 = yes). A criterion counts as met at 0.60 or above.
Question	Probability	Met?
Identity framing	0.05	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.01	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.02	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.01	No
Controversy escalation	0.03	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.88	Yes
Overall judgement	0.06	At or below not-flagging threshold

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing (chosen)	1.00
Reports or questions it	0.00
Criticises or condemns it	0.00
Adopts it	0.00

Subject area (top five)
Subject	Probability
Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues	0.73
Sexism, misogyny, ageism and other equality groups	0.27
No identity-related subject	0.00
Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials	0.00
Parades, bonfires and commemorations	0.00

Assessed 21 October 2026 at 08:26 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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