Oral question AQO 2328/22-27

Oral question by Mr David Brooks on 4 September 2025.

MLA: Mr David Brooks
Party at the time: Democratic Unionist Party
Date: 4 September 2025
Type: Oral question
Assembly reference: AQO 2328/22-27
Department: Department of Health
Business: To the Minister of Health
Assembly identifier: Document 448044

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Text

To ask the Minister of Health whether any consideration has been given to developing a men’s health strategy for Northern Ireland.

21 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:

15 September 2025 – I thank the Minister for his answer. The question comes on the back of some positive collaborative work being done in…

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: 0.04 (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 (0.91).
No identity-based framing was identified (1.00).
Subject area: Sexism, misogyny, ageism and other equality groups.
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	0.06	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.01	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.01	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.01	No
Controversy escalation	0.02	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.91	Yes
Overall judgement	0.04	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
Sexism, misogyny, ageism and other equality groups	0.69
Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues	0.29
No identity-related subject	0.02
Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials	0.00
Parades, bonfires and commemorations	0.00

Assessed 21 October 2026 at 08:31 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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