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HANSARD Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) BillI am sorry to intervene on the hon. Gentleman again—he is being very generous with his time—but I just want to be absolutely clear on the record: this has nothing to do with a…05 Mar 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) BillIt is worth putting on the record the fact that the last time the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference had met was in 2007. Clearly, although the institutions were running…05 Mar 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) BillIt is an honour to serve under your chairmanship in this Committee, Dame Eleanor. As these matters were debated at length on Second Reading, I do not propose to detain the…05 Mar 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) BillWhat we are doing today is effectively the estimates process. The moneys we are voting on today have all been voted for and properly scrutinised in this House. We are confirming…05 Mar 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) BillThe additional funding for health and education is partly down to the new money that the Treasury has found—the £140 million—but it is also down to Barnett consequentials and…05 Mar 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) BillThis has been an interesting debate with some passionately held views clearly expressed. Let me touch briefly on the comments made by the hon. Member for Paisley and Renfrewshire…05 Mar 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) BillI will of course be very happy to provide the hon. Gentleman with more information on that point. Everybody believed that the Human Rights Commission had legal standing. The HRC…05 Mar 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) BillI absolutely understand the hon. Gentleman’s point, but I gently say that this is a very technical Bill that is putting spending that has already happened on a statutory basis. It…05 Mar 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) BillI do not accept what the hon. Lady said. We have appropriate and proper separation of the judiciary and Parliament. The prosecuting services in Northern Ireland, the police and…05 Mar 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) BillI beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. I will keep my remarks to a minimum, as we have had a long day and considerable debate on the matters raised. We have…05 Mar 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) BillI know the right hon. Gentleman wants to come in, but I want to make some progress, because I am conscious that others want to speak and we want to make sure everyone has a chance…05 Mar 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) BillWe are keen that the Northern Ireland civil service does the necessary work to prepare for the transformation of health and education and for the urgently needed reforms but, to…05 Mar 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) BillI repeat: the Bill is about putting on a statutory footing the spending that has already taken place. I will be happy to furnish the hon. Lady with information about money that…05 Mar 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) BillThe written ministerial statement sets out the departmental allocations. Those are the moneys that the permanent secretaries have asked me to deliver to them. I cannot direct the…05 Mar 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) BillI will give way to the hon. Gentleman again, and then I will make progress.05 Mar 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) BillI understand the point the hon. Gentleman makes. He has significant experience in Northern Ireland and will know a great deal about it. The police put in a specific bid for…05 Mar 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) BillOf course, there is full scrutiny of the Northern Ireland block grant—that is the estimates process that we went through last week in this House; this House is able to scrutinise…05 Mar 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) BillI understand the hon. Gentleman’s concerns, but we have to be aware of the constitutional precedents that are set by changing the way we scrutinise these Bills. The way this Bill…05 Mar 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) BillThe hon. Lady has raised this issue on several occasions and I know how strongly she feels about it. I have met survivors of historical institutional abuse and what they went…05 Mar 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) BillI know how strongly the right hon. Gentleman feels about that point, which he has raised on several occasions. He will know that we consulted on the process with all five main…05 Mar 2019