Debate contribution: VE Day Commemoration: Parliament Buildings
Debate contribution by Mrs Sinéad Ennis on .
- MLA
- Mrs Sinéad Ennis
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 1 April 2025
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- VE Day Commemoration: Parliament Buildings
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4877027
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I thank the Member for her question. As was the case for the 80th anniversary of D-Day last year, it will be part of the Speaker's representational responsibilities to determine the arrangements for the Assembly to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War at Parliament Buildings. I understand that the Speaker's Office is developing plans for an event to mark that occasion. A statement released by the British Government on 4 March 2025 indicated the intention for landmark buildings to be lit on the evening of 6 May as part of the wider coordinated plans to mark the anniversary of VE Day. While the Assembly Commission has not received an application to light Parliament Buildings under the special lighting policy to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day, it would be usual for the Assembly Commission to join wider initiatives. Officials are seeking more detail on the British Government's plans on lighting buildings for the anniversary. The Assembly Commission will receive an update at its next meeting in April and have the opportunity to consider lighting the building to coincide with the anniversary, alongside the arrangements made by the Speaker.
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