Topical question AQT 1588/22-27

Topical question by Mr Andy Allen MBE on 23 September 2025.

MLA: Mr Andy Allen MBE
Party at the time: Ulster Unionist Party
Date: 23 September 2025
Type: Topical question
Assembly reference: AQT 1588/22-27
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5129746

Text

Mr Allen asked the Minister for Communities, given his reference to the Olympic legacy fund and thinking also of the community infrastructure fund, what funding he has at his disposal for future announcements in light of recent and previous ones.

40 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Follow-ups by the same MLA in the Chamber

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23 September 2025 – The Minister rightly referred to what people want us to do. Another area that I think of and, indeed, declare an…

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 (0.88).
No identity-based framing was identified (1.00).
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	0.03	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.01	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.02	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.01	No
Controversy escalation	0.02	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.88	Yes
Overall judgement	0.04	At or below not-flagging threshold

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing (chosen)	1.00
Reports or questions it	0.00
Criticises or condemns it	0.00
Adopts it	0.00

Subject area (top five)
Subject	Probability
No identity-related subject	0.54
Disability (including neurodivergence and mental health), disabled people and disability or sickness benefits	0.43
Sport (including the GAA), the arts and cultural bodies	0.03
Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials	0.00
Parades, bonfires and commemorations	0.00

Assessed 21 October 2026 at 13:10 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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