AQW 9977/11-15


Mr Daithí McKay
Sinn Féin
North Antrim


Tabled Date: 23/03/2012
Answered On Date: 11/04/2012
Priority Written: No


Question:
To ask the Minister for Employment and Learning to detail all occasions in the last 12 months when his Department has made a presentation to an Assembly committee and provided papers pertaining to that presentation to the committee less than 48 hours beforehand.


Answer:
During the period 1 March 2011 to 29 February 2012 there were eight occasions when officials from the Department for Employment and Learning made a presentation to the Assembly committee and papers were provided less than 48 hours before the meeting. The attached table lists the meeting dates, topics and dates of issue. An asterisk marks each of the eight occasions.
Annex
Date of meeting
Topic
Dates papers issued
23 March 2011
European issues
18 March 2011
1 June 2011
June monitoring
Temporary Agency Workers
31 May 2011*
23 May 2011
8 June 2011
Higher Education Strategy
2 June 2011
15 June 2011
European issues
Further information on Temporary Agency Workers
9 June 2011
10 June 2011
22 June 2011
Stranmillis College and Queen’s University Belfast
June monitoring
17 June 2011
21 June 2011*
29 June 2011
Student finance
23 June 2011
14 September 2011
Legislative Consent Motion – Ofqual
Consultation on tutor qualifications
2 August 2011 and 8 September 2011
4 August 2011
21 September 2011
Review of Education Maintenance Allowance
Welfare Reform
Incapacity Benefit migration
Report provided 13 January 2011
16 September 2011
9 September 2011
5 October 2011
October Monitoring
30 September 2011 4 October 2011
12 October 2011
Re-contracting Training for Success
6 October 2011
19 October 2011
Disability Employment Service
Budget briefing
6 October 2011
14 October 2011
9 November 2011
Essential Skills
October Monitoring
3 November 2011
3 November 2011
23 November 2011
Employment Rights
21 November 2011*
30 November 2011
Careers Strategy
December monitoring
29 November 2011*
29 November 2011*
14 December 2011
December Monitoring
Young People not in Education, Employment or Training
14 December 2011*
8 December 2011
11 January 2012
Employment Service
PfG, ISNI and Economic Strategy
4 January 2012
Papers issued centrally
18 January 2012
Training for Success
17 January 2012*
8 February 2012
Learner Access and Engagement
Further Education Division
24 January 2012
12 January 2012
29 February 2012
Strategy, European and Employment Relations Division
Blacklisting of trade union members
27 February 2012*
22 February 2012
* provided less than 48 hours before the meeting.