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Written Question
New IRA: Weapons
Monday 28th September 2020

Asked by: Baroness Deech (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports that the New IRA has imported weapons from Hezbollah.

Answered by Viscount Younger of Leckie

The Noble Baroness will be aware that in August officers from the Police Service of Northern Ireland made a number of arrests under the Terrorism Act in connection with an ongoing investigation into the activities of the New IRA. Ten people have now been charged with a range of terrorism offences. To ensure that any subsequent prosecutorial proceedings are not compromised, it would not be appropriate to comment further at this stage.