Written question AQW 8134/22-27
Written question by Mr Trevor Clarke on .
- MLA
- Mr Trevor Clarke
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 5 March 2024
- Type
- Written question
- Assembly reference
- AQW 8134/22-27
- Department
- Department for Communities
- Business
- To the Minister for Communities
- Assembly identifier
- Document 392230
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Text
To ask the Minister for Communities to provide details of funding provided by the Arts Council NI to groups, broken down by their community background.
25 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Assessment
Jev’s structured answers met the documented threshold for “not qualifying”.
- Overall probability that the activity is being used to promote, exploit or escalate an identity-based controversy: 0.23 (qualifying needs at least 0.70; at or below 0.30 is not qualifying).
- None of the five culture-war criteria was met (each was below 0.60).
- Assessed as legitimate policy scrutiny (0.95).
- No identity-based framing was identified (0.83).
- Subject area: Another identity-related subject.
- The overall probability was at or below the not-qualifying 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
| Question | Probability | Met? |
|---|---|---|
| Identity framing | 0.22 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.02 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.23 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.06 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.16 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.95 | Yes |
| Overall judgement | 0.23 | At or below not-qualifying threshold |
| Option | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-based framing (chosen) | 0.83 |
| Reports or questions it | 0.14 |
| Criticises or condemns it | 0.00 |
| Adopts it | 0.03 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| Another identity-related subject | 0.44 |
| Sport (including the GAA), the arts and cultural bodies | 0.37 |
| Immigration, asylum, race, ethnicity and Travellers | 0.12 |
| Religion and belief (including people of no religion), churches, faith communities and religious prejudice (including antisemitism and anti-Muslim prejudice) | 0.04 |
| No identity-related subject | 0.01 |
Assessed 20 October 2026 at 21:31 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r1, methodology 1.0.
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