AQW 66/17-22

Mr Andy Allen MBE
Ulster Unionist Party
East Belfast

Tabled Date: 09/11/2017
Answered On Date: 24/11/2017
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Assembly Commission to detail (i) the names, aside from the Speaker, who have stayed overnight in the Speaker’s accommodation on the Stormont Estate since 01 May 2016; (ii) each date each person stayed; and (iii) under what/whose authority they stayed there.

Answer:

To ask the Assembly Commission to detail (i) the names, aside from the Speaker, who have stayed overnight in the Speaker’s accommodation on the Stormont Estate since 01 May 2016; (ii) each date each person stayed; and (iii) under what/whose authority they stayed there.

AQW 66/17-22

There has been no requirement for official accommodation for the Speaker on the Stormont estate since May 2016. While a property was used in the past by the Commission for the previous two Speakers who lived a considerable distance from Parliament Buildings, when he took office Speaker Newton informed officials that he would not require official accommodation on the Stormont Estate. Arrangements were therefore made for the control of the accommodation and its use to be transferred from the Assembly Commission to the Department of Finance during this period.