Debate contribution: School Uniform Guidelines: Coats

Debate contribution by Mr Jon Burrows on 12 January 2026.

MLA: Mr Jon Burrows
Party at the time: Ulster Unionist Party
Date: 12 January 2026
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: School Uniform Guidelines: Coats
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5311341

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I look forward to reading the final version of the guidelines. It is an example of practical politics that works for our people that pupils will have the right to wear a coat of their choice to school. On the issue of practical politics and school uniforms, will the Minister give an assurance that he supports the right of girls who wish to wear trousers to school to do so, just as ladies can do in workplaces up and down the country?

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

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This follow-up belongs to: Oral question AQO 2879/22-27.

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