Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Gavin Robinson Excerpts
Wednesday 12th December 2018

(5 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Penrose Portrait John Penrose
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Having been in the job for three and a half weeks, I am afraid that I do not have the precise number, but it was very many and the tragedy was huge.

Gavin Robinson Portrait Gavin Robinson (Belfast East) (DUP)
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One of the last formal acts I did as Lord Mayor of Belfast in 2013 was to unveil a memorial stone in the Belfast City Council memorial garden to the Ulster Defence Regiment and others who served in Operation Banner. May I invite the Minister to come with me to see the memorial there and to consider how best nationally we could reflect the Government’s recognition of sacrifice in Northern Ireland?

John Penrose Portrait John Penrose
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I will gladly go to that memorial.