Topical question AQT 975/22-27

Topical question by Ms Kate Nicholl on 3 February 2025.

MLA: Ms Kate Nicholl
Party at the time: Alliance Party
Date: 3 February 2025
Type: Topical question
Assembly reference: AQT 975/22-27
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4774315

Text

Ms Nicholl asked the Minister of Justice, having noted that she was pleased to see the launch of the Power to Change campaign, whether she agrees that societal change to attitudes and behaviours is required to prevent and eliminate violence against women and girls, rather than just addressing it.

49 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:

3 February 2025 – Thank you, Minister, for your answer and for the important work that you do in that space. How will the campaign evolve?

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 (0.77).
No identity-based framing was identified (0.98).
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	0.07	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.01	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.02	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.02	No
Controversy escalation	0.03	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.77	Yes
Overall judgement	0.04	At or below not-flagging threshold

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing (chosen)	0.98
Reports or questions it	0.00
Criticises or condemns it	0.02
Adopts it	0.00

Subject area (top five)
Subject	Probability
Sexism, misogyny, ageism and other equality groups	0.54
Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues	0.46
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 11:51 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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