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Welfare State: Northern Ireland

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Question for Northern Ireland Office

UIN 450, tabled on 28 May 2015

Question

Mr Ivan Lewis
Labour
Bury South
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what discussions she has had with parties represented in the Northern Ireland Executive on the consequences of failure to pass the Welfare Reform Bill in the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Answer

Mrs Theresa Villiers
Conservative
Chipping Barnet
Commons

Answered on

2 June 2015

I have facilitated a number of cross-party meetings in an effort to make progress on welfare reform in Northern Ireland. I also held a series of bilateral discussions with each of the main Northern Ireland parties on this issue last week. Implementing welfare reform is a key component of the Stormont House Agreement.

Given the very serious situation we are now facing, the quarterly review meeting of the Stormont House Agreement has been brought forward to today (2 June). I urge the Northern Ireland parties to work through the issues and make sure that the progress offered by the Agreement is urgently realised.

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