Oral question AQO 2925/22-27

Oral question by Mr Timothy Gaston on 8 January 2026.

MLA: Mr Timothy Gaston
Party at the time: Traditional Unionist Voice
Date: 8 January 2026
Type: Oral question
Assembly reference: AQO 2925/22-27
Department: The Executive Office
Business: To the First Minister and deputy First Minister
Assembly identifier: Document 465256

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Text

To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister, in light of Stonewall’s reported financial crisis, whether they will end any engagement between their Department, its arm’s-length bodies and Stonewall.

30 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:

19 January 2026 – Across the UK, Departments, and even the BBC, have withdrawn money from Stonewall's scheme, citing concerns about…

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).
None of the five culture-war criteria was met (each was below 0.60).
Assessed as legitimate policy scrutiny (0.69).
No identity-based framing was identified (0.54).
Subject area: Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues.
The overall probability was moderate at most and none of the culture-war criteria was close to being met.

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	0.07	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.06	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.05	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.24	No
Controversy escalation	0.36	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.69	Yes
Overall judgement	0.47	Between thresholds

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing (chosen)	0.54
Reports or questions it	0.11
Criticises or condemns it	0.00
Adopts it	0.35

Subject area (top five)
Subject	Probability
Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues	0.96
No identity-related subject	0.03
Another identity-related subject	0.01
Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials	0.00
Parades, bonfires and commemorations	0.00

Assessed 21 October 2026 at 08:33 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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