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HANSARDLocal Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Order 2024That is my understanding. As I outlined in my speech, where votes have been rejected, the electoral officer will write to the individuals concerned to let them know why, where…26 Feb 2024HANSARDLocal Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Order 2024Of course; I apologise to the noble Lord. In Northern Ireland, all electoral delivery is the responsibility of the chief electoral officer and his staff. Local authorities in…26 Feb 2024HANSARDRepresentation of the People (Postal Vote Handling etc.) (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 2024That the Grand Committee do consider the Representation of the People (Postal Vote Handling etc.) (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 2024.26 Feb 2024HANSARDWindsor Framework (Constitutional Status of Northern Ireland) Regulations 2024My Lords, I thank all those who contributed to this brief debate. I will endeavour not to keep us much beyond midnight. I jest—but, in all seriousness, if there is one thing that…13 Feb 2024HANSARDWindsor Framework (UK Internal Market and Unfettered Access) Regulations 2024That the draft Regulations laid before the House on 31 January be approved. Relevant document: 12th Report from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee. Special attention…13 Feb 2024HANSARDWindsor Framework (Constitutional Status of Northern Ireland) Regulations 2024That the draft Regulations laid before the House on 31 January be approved. Relevant document: 12th Report from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee. Special attention…13 Feb 2024HANSARDWindsor Framework (Constitutional Status of Northern Ireland) Regulations 2024My Lords, I shall speak also to the draft Windsor Framework (UK Internal Market and Unfettered Access) Regulations 2024. I offer my gratitude to my noble friend Lord Hunt of…13 Feb 2024HANSARDNorthern Ireland Executive FormationI welcome the fact that my noble friend supports the restoration of the institution; where I part company is on the issue of alignment. There is absolutely nothing in this deal…01 Feb 2024HANSARDNorthern Ireland Executive FormationI am grateful to the noble Lord. I appreciate that he has a particular interest in this area and is involved in one of the potential bids for levelling up fund money in Coleraine.…01 Feb 2024HANSARDNorthern Ireland Executive FormationI thank the noble Lord, who is my good friend, for his kind words. I pay tribute to him for the many hours of work he put into this process behind the scenes in bringing us to…01 Feb 2024HANSARDNorthern Ireland Executive FormationI am very grateful to the former Secretary of State for his comments and commend him for the work he did as Secretary of State in trying to move Northern Ireland forward after…01 Feb 2024HANSARDNorthern Ireland Executive FormationMy Lords, I am extremely grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Murphy of Torfaen, and the noble Baroness, Lady Suttie, for their support for the deal reached by my right honourable…01 Feb 2024HANSARDNorthern Ireland Executive FormationI am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Dodds of Duncairn, for his words, and I welcome his positive remarks about a number of the new bodies, such as InterTrade UK and the new…01 Feb 2024HANSARDNorthern Ireland Executive FormationI pay tribute to my noble friend for the work he has done on the Northern Ireland protocol sub-committee over the past few years and for the work of his think tank, Policy…01 Feb 2024HANSARDNorthern Ireland Executive FormationMy noble friend will be aware that the statutory instrument, which we will have the opportunity to debate at length, reaffirms the supremacy of UK law, including the Acts of…01 Feb 2024HANSARDNorthern Ireland Executive FormationMy Lords, I shall now repeat a Statement made in another place by my right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. The Statement is as follows: “ With…01 Feb 2024HANSARDNorthern Ireland Executive FormationThose will of course all be matters for the new Executive to take forward, not for His Majesty’s Government to impose. However, I am sure that they will take note of the comments…01 Feb 2024HANSARDNorthern Ireland Executive FormationThe Government are absolutely confident that this deal will guarantee the smooth flow of goods throughout the United Kingdom. That is not just the opinion of the Government but of…01 Feb 2024HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Executive Formation) BillMy Lords, before I move to the Bill, this is the first opportunity I have had at the Dispatch Box to welcome my noble friend Lord Empey back to his place and to pass on formally…24 Jan 2024HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Executive Formation) BillThat the Bill be now read a second time.24 Jan 2024