Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Northern Ireland Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Neil Carmichael Excerpts
Wednesday 26th February 2014

(10 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Theresa Villiers Portrait Mrs Villiers
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The Government have provided significant extra funding for the PSNI—£200 million in the current spending review and £30 million in 2015-16. I continue to support and encourage the discussions between the Department of Finance and Personnel, the Department of Justice and the PSNI on the Executive’s contribution to police funding. It is also important that the NCA provide as much support as it can to the PSNI, within the constraints it is under because of the lack of a legislative consent motion.

Neil Carmichael Portrait Neil Carmichael (Stroud) (Con)
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Will the Secretary of State assure the House that she will not entertain any ideas of amnesties for terrorists, unlike the last Labour Government?

Theresa Villiers Portrait Mrs Villiers
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This Government do not support amnesties for terrorists, and we oppose the legislation put forward by the previous Government which would have amounted to an effective amnesty.