Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Safeguarding the Union, published on 31 January 2024, what progress his Department has made on establishing a strengthened independent review of the Windsor Framework.

The Windsor Framework (Constitutional Status of Northern Ireland) Regulations 2024 introduced new legal requirements on the conduct of an independent review of the Windsor Framework. The commissioning of an Independent Review is dependent on the outcome of the democratic consent vote process due to take place in the Northern Ireland Assembly later this year, and the Government will follow the legal duties that apply in full.