Every imported question, contribution and motion, with its classification. Unflagged, uncertain and not-yet-analysed records are all included so the analysis can be checked independently.
To ask the Minister of Finance, in relation to the commitment made in the 2025 Public Procurement Policy Statement Principle 2: Efficiency and Effectiveness, that regular progress reports on Major Capital Projects will be provided to the Northern Ireland Civil Service Board, whether these reports will include details…
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail the process of how the requirements of the 2025 Public Procurement Policy Statement Principle 3: Social Value will be monitored, to ensure that what is committed to during the initial bid is delivered during the contract delivery.
To ask the Minister of Finance, in relation to the 2025 Public Procurement Policy Statement Principle 1: Accessibility, whether there will be increased accessibility for local small businesses on local contracts where possible, rather than bids being set out on large regional basis.
To ask the Minister of Finance, in relation to the 2025 Public Procurement Policy Statement Principle 1: Accessibility, whether there will be increased provision of up-front funding to suppliers, rather than small businesses and charities being required to be significantly out of pocket and then recoup the funding at…
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail what is included in the Terms of Reference in the current review of arms'-length bodies across all Departments.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail how his Department determines the number of places allocated to Initial Teacher Education providers each year.
To ask the Minister of Education for a breakdown of initial teacher training places for secondary education, over the last three years, broken down by subject.
To ask the Minister of Education (i) for his assessment of the iNEQE Safeguarding Group's roll-out of the Safer Schools Northern Ireland App; and (ii) to detail in what ways this has been successfully used to prevent drugs deaths amongst young people.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail whether his Department has undertaken an equality or poverty impact assessment on the current eligibility thresholds for free school meals, in light of recent statistics showing a rise in both relative and absolute child poverty.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any consideration his Department has given to extending free school meal eligibility to include all children in households in receipt of Universal Credit, in line with England.
To ask the Minister of Education to outline his assessment of the need to provide additional funding to community and voluntary childcare providers who support children and families in disadvantaged areas.
To ask the Minister of Education if the targeted business support scheme for childcare providers will give particular consideration to the role of the community and voluntary childcare sector.
To ask the Minister of Education to outline any work he has undertaken with the Minister for Communities to better align community and voluntary organisations supporting children and families in areas of disadvantage.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail how he is seeking to develop AI literacy skills amongst school pupils, in light of the TechFirst programme recently launched by the UK Government.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs for his assessment of what potential opportunities his Department's estate presents to achieve 80 per cent electricity consumption from renewable sources by 2030, as set out in the Climate Change Act (Northern Ireland) 2022.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs for an update on the Forest Service’s ongoing industry engagement with wind energy developers to assess the potential of wind energy generation on forestry land.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to provide the business case in relation to each event (i) he attended; and (ii) officials from his Department attended, outside the British Isles since the restoration of the Executive in February 2024.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the estimated remediation and clean-up costs for the Mobuoy site in each of the last five years.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (i) for his assessment of the scale of pollution into our waterways caused by the Department for Infrastructure and its arm's-length bodies; and (ii) to detail what correspondence his Department has had with the Minister for Infrastructure in relation…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs what steps he is taking to ensure that upcoming WEEE reforms will significantly expand public access to convenient and consistent collection points for electrical waste, with particular emphasis on promoting reuse in line with the waste hierarchy.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail what financial support will be provided to the fishing industry on Lough Neagh.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail what contingency arrangements are in place if a water pollution issue were to be identified in the River Faughan.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs when he intends to progress the recommendations of the Forest Service's pre-market engagement questionnaire on opportunities for wind energy developers in order to develop future wind energy generation on its estate.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs when his Department will begin tenders for commercial wind generation on forestry land.