Topical question AQT 1743/22-27

Topical question by Mr David Brooks on 10 November 2025.

MLA: Mr David Brooks
Party at the time: Democratic Unionist Party
Date: 10 November 2025
Type: Topical question
Assembly reference: AQT 1743/22-27
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5224554

Text

Mr Brooks asked the First Minister and deputy First Minister, given that the leader of the Opposition has written to the head of the Civil Service on matters relating to the visit of the Education Minister to Israel, to indicate what role the head of the Civil Service has in that regard.

52 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:

10 November 2025 – I make a declaration of interest, having been on the trip to Israel. Will the deputy First Minister clarify for the…

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: 0.25 (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).
No identity-based framing was identified (0.83).
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	0.04	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.02	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.04	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.04	No
Controversy escalation	0.29	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.39	No
Overall judgement	0.25	At or below not-flagging threshold

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing (chosen)	0.83
Reports or questions it	0.14
Criticises or condemns it	0.01
Adopts it	0.02

Subject area (top five)
Subject	Probability
No identity-related subject	0.65
Religion and belief (including people of no religion), churches, faith communities and religious prejudice (including antisemitism and anti-Muslim prejudice)	0.15
Education structures, integration and community division	0.14
Constitutional question, Brexit, the Windsor Framework and sovereignty	0.03
Another identity-related subject	0.02

Assessed 21 October 2026 at 13:38 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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