Northern Ireland: Commission for Victims and Survivors Debate

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Northern Ireland: Commission for Victims and Survivors

Lord Empey Excerpts
Thursday 22nd October 2020

(4 years, 1 month ago)

Lords Chamber
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Viscount Younger of Leckie Portrait Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con)
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That allows me to say, in response to my noble friend’s question, that the focus is on looking ahead, not back, and on information recovery and reconciliation. Those two things should be at the heart of the revised legacy system, not looking back.

Lord Empey Portrait Lord Empey (UUP)
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Can my noble friend tell the House whether he or his colleagues have had discussions with the newly appointed Northern Ireland veterans’ commissioner? Furthermore, is it now government policy that the historical inquiries unit proposed in the Stormont House agreement will not be established?