| Ref No | Member | Question | Tabled | Status |
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AQW 24528/22-27
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Ms Diane Forsythe
(DUP - South Down)
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To ask the Minister of Finance whether the Recruitment and Retention Allowance awarded for the seven posts at the Executive Office which are receiving Retention Allowance costing £9,750 per month, as detailed in the response to FOI DOF/2025-0078, is on a permanent basis or time-bound with a review date set.
| 18/03/2025 |
To be answered by 02/04/2025
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AQW 24527/22-27
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Ms Diane Forsythe
(DUP - South Down)
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To ask the Minister of Finance to detail when the Recruitment and Retention Allowance was awarded for the seven posts at the Executive Office receiving Retention Allowance costing £9,750 per month, as detailed in the response to FOI DOF/2025-0078.
| 18/03/2025 |
To be answered by 02/04/2025
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AQW 24526/22-27
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Ms Diane Forsythe
(DUP - South Down)
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To ask the Minister of Finance to detail what skills shortages and market pressures were experienced in recruiting the seven posts in the Executive Office for which the rationale has been applied to award the Recruitment and Retention Allowance costing £9,750 per month, as detailed in the response to FOI DOF/2025-0078.
| 18/03/2025 |
To be answered by 02/04/2025
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AQW 24525/22-27
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Ms Diane Forsythe
(DUP - South Down)
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To ask the Minister of Finance to detail (i) the number of Northern Ireland Civil Service staff that are paid their salary or wages in a method other than BACS; (ii) the value of this; and (iii) which alternate method is used for payment of salaries or wages, in each of the last three financial years.
| 18/03/2025 |
To be answered by 02/04/2025
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AQW 24461/22-27
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Ms Diane Forsythe
(DUP - South Down)
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To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail any fees within her departmental group that do not deliver full cost recovery, as set out in Managing Public Money NI and Department of Finance guidance.
| 14/03/2025 |
To be answered by 01/04/2025
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AQW 24460/22-27
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Ms Diane Forsythe
(DUP - South Down)
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To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail why the Tourism NI Quality Grading Scheme, which operated from 1 April 2012 to 14 August 2023, set fees at a deficit where the income was £553,404 and expenditure was £1,122,217, giving a loss of £568,813 to public funds.
| 14/03/2025 |
To be answered by 01/04/2025
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AQW 24459/22-27
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Ms Diane Forsythe
(DUP - South Down)
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To ask the Minister for the Economy whether any of the £553,404, charged by Tourism NI since June 2011 under the voluntary Quality Assurance Grading Scheme for the serviced accommodation sector and under Article 21 of The Tourism (Northern Ireland) Order 1992, which was paused in November 2022 as it was found Tourism NI did not have the authority to charge such fees, was returned to the payees.
| 14/03/2025 |
To be answered by 01/04/2025
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AQW 24458/22-27
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Ms Diane Forsythe
(DUP - South Down)
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To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail (i) the status of Tourism NI’s Annual Report and Accounts for (a) 2022-23; and (b) 2023-24; and (ii) where they are published.
| 14/03/2025 |
To be answered by 01/04/2025
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AQW 24457/22-27
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Ms Diane Forsythe
(DUP - South Down)
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To ask the Minister of Finance, pursuant to AQW 23769/22-27, to assess the opportunity to increase the return on investment of public funds by investing the £193 million collected up front for rates to earn interest income for the Northern Ireland Consolidated Fund.
| 14/03/2025 |
To be answered by 01/04/2025
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AQO 1760/22-27
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Ms Diane Forsythe
(DUP - South Down)
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To ask the Minister of Justice for her assessment of the regularity with which the PSNI are unable to apprehend offenders during a pursuit as a result of those offenders crossing the border.
| 13/03/2025 |
To be answered on 24/03/2025
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