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Business of the House

In Northern Ireland, we have been informed this morning that the prosecution has decided to adduce no evidence in the case against those responsible for the Stormont spy ring, which brought down the Northern Ireland Administration in 2002. That has caused great anxiety and consternation among the people of Northern Ireland this morning. May we have a statement or an early debate to indicate what are the reasons behind the public interest in refusing to pursue a case where the IRA and Sinn Fein were exposed as having been at the centre of a major spying operation against Government and security forces in Northern Ireland?