Security in Northern Ireland

Part of Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day] – in the House of Commons at 4:17 pm on 21 November 2012.

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Photo of Sylvia Hermon Sylvia Hermon Independent, North Down 4:17, 21 November 2012

I thank the Minister very much indeed for agreeing to a round-table discussion on a memorial garden for those 30 prison officers, which is wholly appropriate. I would hope that Finlay Spratt and others will be there.

On the inventory of decommissioned weapons, I welcome the Minister’s explanation that the Government appear not to have the document, but will he kindly confirm what is believed, which is that the document, the inventories and the details are kept in the university of Boston in America? Will the Minister clarify that if I were an academic, I could go to Boston and have open access to the inventories, but the people of Northern Ireland, and the MPs representing Northern Ireland, cannot see them? That is ludicrous.