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Members Imprisonment Since 1979
Members Imprisonment since 1979 Parliamentary Information List Standard Note: SN/PC/04594 Last updated: 23 January 2008 Author: Reference Services Section In all cases in which Members of either House are arrested on criminal charges, the House must be informed of the cause for which they are detained from their service to parliament. It has been usual to communicate the cause of committal of a Member after his arrest; such communications are also made whenever Members are in custody in order to be tried by naval or military courts-martial, or have been committed to prison for any criminal offence by a court or magistrate. Although normally making an oral statement, the Speaker has notified the House of the arrest or imprisonment of a Member by laying a copy of a letter on the table. In the case of committals for military offences, the communication is made by royal message. Where a Member is convicted but released on bail pending an appeal, the duty of the magistrate to communicate with the Speaker does not arise. The Parliamentary Information List Series cover various topics relating to Parliament; they include Bills, Committees, Constitution, Debates, Divisions, The House of Commons, Parliament and procedure. Also available: Research papers - impartial briefings on major bills and other topics of public and parliamentary concern, available as printed documents and on the Intranet and Internet. Standard notes – less formal briefings, often produced in response to frequently asked questions, mainly accessible via the Intranet. Factsheets – the House of Commons Information Office Factsheets provide brief informative descriptions of various facets of the House of Commons. -
Summary of the 27Th Plenary Session, October 2003
BRITISH-IRISH INTER- PARLIAMENTARY BODY COMHLACHT IDIR- PHARLAIMINTEACH NA BREATAINE AGUS NA hÉIREANN _________________________ TWENTY-SEVENTH PLENARY CONFERENCE 20 and 21 OCTOBER 2003 Hanbury Manor Hotel & Country Club, Ware, Hertfordshire _______________________ OFFICIAL REPORT (Final Revised Edition) (Produced by the British-Irish Parliamentary Reporting Association) Any queries should be sent to: The Editor The British-Irish Parliamentary Reporting Association Room 248 Parliament Buildings Stormont Belfast BT4 3XX Tel: 028 90521135 e-mail [email protected] IN ATTENDANCE Co-Chairmen Mr Brendan Smith TD Mr David Winnick MP Members and Associate Members Mr Harry Barnes MP Mr Séamus Kirk TD Senator Paul Bradford Senator Terry Le Sueur Mr Johnny Brady TD Dr Dai Lloyd AM Rt Hon the Lord Brooke Rt Hon Andrew Mackay MP of Sutton Mandeville CH Mr Andrew Mackinlay MP Mr Alistair Carmichael MP Dr John Marek AM Senator Paul Coughlan Mr Michael Mates MP Dr Jerry Cowley TD Rt Hon Sir Brian Mawhinney MP Mr Seymour Crawford TD Mr Kevin McNamara MP Dr Jimmy Devins TD Mr David Melding AM The Lord Dubs Senator Paschal Mooney Ms Helen Eadie MSP Mr Arthur Morgan TD Mr John Ellis TD Mr Alasdair Morrison MSP Mr Jeff Ennis MP Senator Francie O’Brien Ms Margaret Ewing MSP Mr William O’Brien MP Mr Paul Flynn MP Mr Donald J Gelling CBE MLC Ms Liz O’Donnell TD Mr Mike German AM Mr Ned O’Keeffe TD Mr Jim Glennon TD Mr Jim O’Keeffe TD The Lord Glentoran CBE DL Senator Ann Ormonde Mr Dominic Grieve MP Mr Séamus Pattison TD Mr John Griffiths AM Senator -
A Democratic Design? the Political Style of the Northern Ireland Assembly
A Democratic Design? The political style of the Northern Ireland Assembly Rick Wilford Robin Wilson May 2001 FOREWORD....................................................................................................3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .................................................................................4 Background.........................................................................................................................................7 Representing the People.....................................................................................................................9 Table 1 Parties Elected to the Assembly ........................................................................................10 Public communication......................................................................................................................15 Table 2 Written and Oral Questions 7 February 2000-12 March 2001*........................................17 Assembly committees .......................................................................................................................20 Table 3 Statutory Committee Meetings..........................................................................................21 Table 4 Standing Committee Meetings ..........................................................................................22 Access to information.......................................................................................................................26 Table 5 Assembly Staffing -
Peter Robinson DUP Reg Empey UUP Robin Newton DUP David Walter Ervine PUP Naomi Rachel Long Alliance Michael Stewart Copeland UUP
CANDIDATES ELECTED TO THE NORTHERN IRELAND ASSEMBLY 26 NOVEMBER 2003 Belfast East: Peter Robinson DUP Reg Empey UUP Robin Newton DUP David Walter Ervine PUP Naomi Rachel Long Alliance Michael Stewart Copeland UUP Belfast North: Nigel Alexander Dodds DUP Gerry Kelly Sinn Fein Nelson McCausland DUP Fred Cobain UUP Alban Maginness SDLP Kathy Stanton Sinn Fein Belfast South: Michael McGimpsey UUP Simon Mark Peter Robinson DUP John Esmond Birnie UUP Carmel Hanna SDLP Alex Maskey Sinn Fein Alasdair McDonnell SDLP Belfast West: Gerry Adams Sinn Fein Alex Atwood SDLP Bairbre de Brún Sinn Fein Fra McCann Sinn Fein Michael Ferguson Sinn Fein Diane Dodds DUP East Antrim: Roy Beggs UUP Sammy Wilson DUP Ken Robinson UUP Sean Neeson Alliance David William Hilditch DUP Thomas George Dawson DUP East Londonderry: Gregory Campbell DUP David McClarty UUP Francis Brolly Sinn Fein George Robinson DUP Norman Hillis UUP John Dallat SDLP Fermanagh and South Tyrone: Thomas Beatty (Tom) Elliott UUP Arlene Isobel Foster DUP* Tommy Gallagher SDLP Michelle Gildernew Sinn Fein Maurice Morrow DUP Hugh Thomas O’Reilly Sinn Fein * Elected as UUP candidate, became a member of the DUP with effect from 15 January 2004 Foyle: John Mark Durkan SDLP William Hay DUP Mitchel McLaughlin Sinn Fein Mary Bradley SDLP Pat Ramsey SDLP Mary Nelis Sinn Fein Lagan Valley: Jeffrey Mark Donaldson DUP* Edwin Cecil Poots DUP Billy Bell UUP Seamus Anthony Close Alliance Patricia Lewsley SDLP Norah Jeanette Beare DUP* * Elected as UUP candidate, became a member of the DUP with effect from -
Ethnicising Ulster's Protestants
Ethnicising Ulster’s Protestants Tolerance, Peoplehood, and Class in Ulster-Scots Ethnopedagogy Peter Robert Gardner Jesus College, The University of Cambridge This dissertation is submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Contents Figures and Tables iv Abbreviations and Short Forms v Acknowledgements vi Word Limit and Plagiarism Statement vii Abstract viii Chapter One: Introduction 1 1.1 Research Questions, Methods and Chapter Overview 5 1.2 Tolerance, Peoplehood, Dignity 7 Chapter Two: Protestantism, Unionism and Consociational Ideology 11 2.1 Shifting Peoplehoods 12 2.1.1 From British Rule to Unionist Rule 12 2.1.2 From Multiplicity toward Britishness 15 2.1.3 Defeatism and the Cultural Turn 18 2.2 Consociationalism, Normativity, Power 21 2.3 Ulster-Scots 26 2.3.1 Ethnic Peoplehood 26 2.3.2 Who are the Ulster-Scots? 30 2.3.3 “Revival” 35 2.4 Conclusion 38 Chapter Three: Communal Segregation and Educational Peace-Building 39 3.1 The Current State of Segregation 39 3.2 Segregated Education 45 3.3 Education and Peace-Building 55 3.4 Conclusion: De-segregating the Mind 63 Chapter Four: Methods 65 4.1 Research Design and Methods 65 4.1.1 Educational Materials 66 4.1.2 Interviews 67 4.1.3. Primary School Survey 69 4.2 Analysis 70 4.2.1 Euphemism, “Telling” and Reading Silences 72 4.2.2 Reflexivity, Stickiness and Power Dynamics 75 4.3 Conclusion 78 Chapter Five: The Development of Ulster-Scots Education 79 5.1 Processes of Peoplehood-Building 79 5.2 Three Phases of Development 81 5.2.1 Phase One: Grass-Roots Education, Elite Lobbying -
Parliamentary Mission -- Dublin, Ireland and Belfast, Northern
Report of the Canadian Parliamentary Delegation respecting its mission to Ireland and Northern Ireland, United Kingdom Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association Dublin and Cork, Ireland and Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom March 5-9, 2018 REPORT From 5 to 9 March 2018, the Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association (CAEU) sent a delegation of six parliamentarians to Ireland and Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (U.K.). The delegates were Mr. James Maloney, MP and head of the delegation; Mr. Scott Simms, MP and chair of CAEU; Hon. René Cormier, Senator; Hon. David Wells, Senator; Mr. Ziad Aboultaif, MP; and Ms. Irene Mathyssen, MP. The delegation was accompanied by Association Secretary, Ms. Guyanne Desforges, and Association Advisor, Ms. Laura Barnett. From 7 to 9 March, CAEU was joined by a delegation of six parliamentarians from the Canada-United Kingdom Inter-Parliamentary Association (RUUK). The delegates were Mr. Frank Baylis, MP and head of the delegation; Hon. Patricia Bovey, Senator; Hon. Donald Plett, Senator; Hon. John MacKay, MP; Mr. Daniel Blaikie, MP and Mr. Kerry Diotte, MP. The delegation was accompanied by Association Secretary, Mr. Jean- Francois Pagé and Association Advisor, Ms. Sonya Norris. During meetings in Dublin, Cork and Belfast, the delegation met with ministers, parliamentarians and other political representatives; government officials; and representatives from business associations, Canadian companies, and think tanks. In addition, the delegation was briefed by officials from Canada’s Embassy to Ireland and the Honorary Consul of Canada in Belfast. The discussions held during these meetings pertained to key issues in Canada-European Union, Canada-Ireland and Canada-U.K. relations, including the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and Brexit. -
Voices from the Shadows, Parliament Buildings, Belfast
ME SUPPORT NORTHERN IRELAND VOICES FROM THE SHADOWS, PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS, BELFAST. ME PATIENTS HAVE THEIR SAY MONDAY 18 FEBRUARY 2013 z z Long Gallery, Stormont. Voices The Long Gallery at Stormont is Northern Ireland’s showcase The venue for major political events. Two Presidents of the United From States greeted politicians in this room, during preliminaries of Shadows the Good Friday Agreement. ME PATIENTS MADE WELCOME In the UK, ME patients are should have free access to their routinely excluded and politicians. So on 18 February ignored during consultations on Voices how their Voices from the Shadows is a healthcare should heart-rending documentary, be shaped. which describes psychiatric mismanagement and abuse of Instead of being vulnerable ME patients in the given what they UK. The Long Gallery was need and want, completely silent for the one- hour duration of the film. they receive only MLAs stayed for the entire what it profits viewing, and a number of some NHS patients were in tears much of practitioners to the time. There was a feeling that this breakthrough offer them. But in documentary should be Belfast Sue she arranged for Northern shown far and wide, among Ramsey, Chair of the Ireland ME patients to have the patient constituency and beyond it. Assembly’s Health Committee, their say in the seat of has a philosophy that patients Government at Stormont. WHAT ME PATIENTS WHAT ME PATIENTS GOT WANTED Mr. Jim Wells, the Health “Don’t import psychiatric Minister-elect told us: “We mismanagement of ME into MLAs are the converted. ME is Northern Ireland”, we asked. -
Find Your Local MLA
Find your local MLA Mr John Stewart UUP East Antrim 95 Main Street Larne Acorn Integrated Primary BT40 1HJ Carnlough Integrated Primary T: 028 2827 2644 Corran Integrated Primary [email protected] Ulidia Integrated College Mr Roy Beggs UUP 3 St. Brides Street Carrickfergus BT38 8AF 028 9336 2995 [email protected] Mr Stewart Dickson Alliance 8 West Street Carrickfergus BT38 7AR 028 9335 0286 [email protected] Mr David Hilditch DUP 2 Joymount Carrickfergus BT38 7DN 028 9332 9980 [email protected] Mr Gordon Lyons DUP 116 Main Street Larne Co. Antrim BT40 1RG 028 2826 7722 [email protected] Mr Robin Newton DUP East Belfast 59 Castlereagh Road Ballymacarret Lough View Integrated Primary Belfast BT5 5FB Mr Andrew Allen UUP 028 9045 9500 [email protected] 174 Albertbridge Road Belfast BT5 4GS 028 9046 3900 [email protected] Ms Joanne Bunting DUP 220 Knock Road Carnamuck Belfast BT5 6QD 028 9079 7100 [email protected] Mrs Naomi Long 56 Upper Newtownards Road Ballyhackamore Belfast BT4 3EL 028 9047 2004 [email protected] Mr Chris Lyttle Alliance 56 Upper Newtownards Road Ballyhackamore Belfast BT4 3EL 028 9047 2004 [email protected] Miss Claire Sugden Independent East Londonderry 1 Upper Abbey Street Coleraine Carhill Integrated Primary BT52 1BF Mill Strand Integrated Primary 028 7032 7294 Roe Valley Integrated Primary [email protected] North Coast Integrated College -
Notice of Appointment of Election Agents
Electoral Office for Northern Ireland Election of Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly for the EAST ANTRIM Constituency NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF ELECTION AGENTS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the following candidates have appointed or are deemed to have appointed the person named as election agent for the election of Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly on Thursday 2 March 2017. NAME AND ADDRESS OF NAME AND ADDRESS OF ADDRESS OF OFFICE TO WHICH CANDIDATE AGENT CLAIMS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS MAY BE SENT IF DIFFERENT FROM ADDRESS OF AGENT Roy Beggs Mr Andrew Park Wilson 9 Carnduff Road, Larne, BT40 3NJ 21 Gordonvale Drive, Larne, BT40 2NS Ricky Best Mr Alister Ralph Best 4 Robinsons Row, Joymount, (address in the East Antrim 20 Whinfield Lane, Greenisland, Carrickfergus, BT38 7DW Constituency) Carrickfergus, BT38 8TU Stewart Clyde Dickson Mr Richard Noel Williams 6 Farm Lodge Park, Greenisland, 30 Red Fort Drive, Carrickfergus, Carrickfergus, BT38 8YB BT38 9EN Danny Donnelly Mr Richard Noel Williams 7 Bute Gardens, Larne, Co Antrim, 30 Red Fort Drive, Carrickfergus, BT40 2JT BT38 9EN Alan Dunlop Mr Robert Alan Dunlop Apt.401 Atlantic Quay, Strand Apt.401 Atlantic Quay, Strand Road, Road, Londonderry, BT48 7NR Londonderry, BT48 7NR David Hilditch Mr Gregg McKeen (address in the East Antrim 2 Allenbrook, Millbrook, Larne, BT40 Constituency) 2QF Noel Jordan Mr Robert Jordan (address in the East Antrim 32 Sunningdale Crescent, Constituency) Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, BT38 8LD Gordon Lyons Mr Gregg McKeen (address in the -
OFFICIAL REPORT (Hansard)
OFFICIAL REPORT (Hansard) Vol u m e 2 (15 February 1999 to 15 July 1999) BELFAST: THE STATIONERY OFFICE LTD £70.00 © Copyright The New Northern Ireland Assembly. Produced and published in Northern Ireland on behalf of the Northern Ireland Assembly by the The Stationery Office Ltd, which is responsible for printing and publishing Northern Ireland Assembly publications. ISBN 0 339 80001 1 ASSEMBLY MEMBERS (A = Alliance Party; NIUP = Northern Ireland Unionist Party; NIWC = Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition; PUP = Progressive Unionist Party; SDLP = Social Democratic and Labour Party; SF = Sinn Fein; DUP = Ulster Democratic Unionist Party; UKUP = United Kingdom Unionist Party; UUP = Ulster Unionist Party; UUAP = United Unionist Assembly Party) Adams, Gerry (SF) (West Belfast) Kennedy, Danny (UUP) (Newry and Armagh) Adamson, Ian (UUP) (East Belfast) Leslie, James (UUP) (North Antrim) Agnew, Fraser (UUAP) (North Belfast) Lewsley, Patricia (SDLP) (Lagan Valley) Alderdice of Knock, The Lord (Initial Presiding Officer) Maginness, Alban (SDLP) (North Belfast) Armitage, Pauline (UUP) (East Londonderry) Mallon, Seamus (SDLP) (Newry and Armagh) Armstrong, Billy (UUP) (Mid Ulster) Maskey, Alex (SF) (West Belfast) Attwood, Alex (SDLP) (West Belfast) McCarthy, Kieran (A) (Strangford) Beggs, Roy (UUP) (East Antrim) McCartney, Robert (UKUP) (North Down) Bell, Billy (UUP) (Lagan Valley) McClarty, David (UUP) (East Londonderry) Bell, Eileen (A) (North Down) McCrea, Rev William (DUP) (Mid Ulster) Benson, Tom (UUP) (Strangford) McClelland, Donovan (SDLP) (South -
MS 254 A980 Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry 1
1 MS 254 A980 Women’s Campaign for Soviet Jewry 1 Administrative papers Parliamentary Correspondence Correspondence with Members of Parliament 1/1/1 Members of Parliament correspondence regarding support for the 1978-95 efforts of the Women’s Campaign for Soviet Jewry and brief profiles and contact details for individual Members of Parliament; Diane Abbot, Robert Adley, Jonathan Aitken, Richard Alexander, Michael Alison, Graham Allen, David Alton, David Amess, Donald Anderson, Hilary Armstrong, Jacques Arnold, Tom Arnold, David Ashby, Paddy Ashdown, Joe Ashton, Jack Aspinwall, Robert Atkins, and David Atkinson 1/1/2 Members of Parliament correspondence regarding support for the 1974-93 efforts of the Women’s Campaign for Soviet Jewry and brief profiles and contact details for individual Members of Parliament; Kenneth Baker, Nicholas Baker, Tony Baldry, Robert Banks, Tony Banks, Kevin Barron, Spencer Batiste and J. D. Battle 1/1/3 Members of Parliament correspondence regarding support for the 1974-93 efforts of the Women’s Campaign for Soviet Jewry and brief profiles and contact details for individual Members of Parliament; Margaret Beckett, Roy Beggs, Alan James Beith, Stuart Bell, Henry Bellingham, Vivian Bendall, Tony Benn, Andrew F. Bennett, Gerald Bermingham, John Biffen, John Blackburn, Anthony Blair, David Blunkett, Paul Boateng, Richard Body, Hartley Booth, Nichol Bonsor, Betty Boothroyd, Tim Boswell and Peter Bottomley 1/1/4 Members of Parliament correspondence regarding support for the 1975-94 efforts of the Women’s Campaign -
Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2
Notes Introduction 1. For example, before Walker (2004a) the last book that was written on the UUP was by John Harbinson (1973). Hume (1996) also contains some inter esting data but is far from comprehensive. The DUP has had more recent analysis but Bruce (1989) and Smyth, C. (1987) are now over fifteen years old and the party has developed significantly since those books were written. Chapter 1 1. Alvin Jackson has encountered similar difficulties in analysing Unionist historiography. He made the distinction between 'Unionist historians' and 'Historians of Unionism'; one of the key distinctions was a declaration of interest Oackson, 1996, 121). 2. He cites Ronan Bennett and Robert Ballagh, although these are not the only examples that could be utilised, and Ruth Dudley Edwards quotes prominent journalist and writer Tim Pat Coogan as remarking at a conference that Unionists had no culture (Dudley Edwards, 2000, 351). 3. Advert in back of Hume (1996). 4. Ulster Review, Issue 18, Winter 1995/1996. 5. Although one Unionist called his book 'intellectual Lundyism', Alex Kane quoted in Jardin (1997). 6. The book won the prestigious Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize. 7. See http://www.sluggerotoole.com/archives/2005/05/david_trimbles.php and http://www.sluggerotoole.com/archives/2005/05/uup_insiders_pl.php accessed 13 May 2005. Chapter 2 1. This would appear to have been at the request of the British, and not Irish, government. See Cochrane (1997, 129-31) for a discussion on an offer made to Molyneaux on Privy Council terms to sign the Agreement in August 1985. 2. For the classic account of Unionist resistance to the third Home Rule bill, see Stewart (1967).