Devolved Government

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Northern Ireland – in the House of Commons at on 6 March 2019.

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Photo of Karen Bradley Karen Bradley The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

I can assure the right hon. Gentleman of that. Despite the lack of a devolved Executive, we now have a fully constituted Policing Board to ensure that we have proper governance arrangements in Northern Ireland. That step was taken after the House passed the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Exercise of Functions) Act 2018. However, the right hon. Gentleman is right: we need to ensure that the police have the powers that they need, throughout the United Kingdom, in order to challenge and deal with the threat of terrorism.