Topical question AQT 772/22-27

Topical question by Mr David Brooks on 19 November 2024.

MLA: Mr David Brooks
Party at the time: Democratic Unionist Party
Date: 19 November 2024
Type: Topical question
Assembly reference: AQT 772/22-27
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4666197

Text

Mr Brooks asked the Minister of Justice, after noting the new research report by the Commissioner Designate for Victims of Crime and Queen's University Belfast that was published this morning, which, importantly, shines a light on male victims of domestic violence, given that, in focusing, rightly, on violence against women and girls, who are disproportionately affected by the issue of domestic violence, third-sector organisations have been key in supporting women, what engagement she has had with similar organisations that support men through domestic violence cases.

85 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 November 2024 – I understand from the report that a lack of refuges and a lack of access to family may be barriers to men's coming…

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: 0.05 (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 (0.93).
No identity-based framing was identified (0.99).
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	0.08	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.01	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.01	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.02	No
Controversy escalation	0.03	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.93	Yes
Overall judgement	0.05	At or below not-flagging threshold

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing (chosen)	0.99
Reports or questions it	0.01
Criticises or condemns it	0.00
Adopts it	0.00

Subject area (top five)
Subject	Probability
Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues	0.62
Sexism, misogyny, ageism and other equality groups	0.38
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 11:37 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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