Topical question AQT 1866/22-27

Topical question by Mr Andy Allen MBE on 8 December 2025.

MLA: Mr Andy Allen MBE
Party at the time: Ulster Unionist Party
Date: 8 December 2025
Type: Topical question
Assembly reference: AQT 1866/22-27
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5284641

Text

Mr Allen asked the First Minister and deputy First Minister, further to the motion on support for our armed forces community that the House passed on 4 November, what steps the Executive Office has taken, particularly on the armed forces covenant, to implement the Armed Forces Act 2021.

48 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:

8 December 2025 – I declare an interest as a military veteran. I thank the deputy First Minister for her answer. What further steps are…

Assessment

Not qualifying

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: 0.04 (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 (0.92).
No identity-based framing was identified (1.00).
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

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	0.02	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.02	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.02	No
Controversy escalation	0.03	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.92	Yes
Overall judgement	0.04	At or below not-qualifying 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	0.55
Another identity-related subject	0.39
Legacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarism	0.03
Constitutional question, Brexit, the Windsor Framework and sovereignty	0.01
Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues	0.01

Assessed 21 October 2026 at 14:07 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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