Oral question AQO 3157/22-27

Oral question by Mr David Brooks on 12 February 2026.

MLA: Mr David Brooks
Party at the time: Democratic Unionist Party
Date: 12 February 2026
Type: Oral question
Assembly reference: AQO 3157/22-27
Department: Department of Education
Business: To the Minister of Education
Assembly identifier: Document 471016

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Text

To ask the Minister of Education for an update on bringing forward legislation to establish a managing authority for controlled schools.

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:

23 February 2026 – I thank the Minister for his answer and for his work to bring equality to our controlled schools. It was interesting to…

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: 0.38 (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 (0.83).
No identity-based framing was identified (0.88).
Subject area: Education structures, integration and community division.
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.
Question	Probability	Met?
Identity framing	0.11	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.02	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.07	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.04	No
Controversy escalation	0.10	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.83	Yes
Overall judgement	0.38	Between thresholds

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing (chosen)	0.88
Reports or questions it	0.02
Criticises or condemns it	0.01
Adopts it	0.09

Subject area (top five)
Subject	Probability
Education structures, integration and community division	0.91
Religion and belief (including people of no religion), churches, faith communities and religious prejudice (including antisemitism and anti-Muslim prejudice)	0.05
No identity-related subject	0.03
Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations	0.01
Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials	0.00

Assessed 21 October 2026 at 08:35 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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