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Northern Ireland Office

Answer

Rev. Martin Smyth: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people claiming links to (a) the UUP, (b) the SDLP, (c) the DUP, (d) Sinn Fein, (e) the Alliance Party, (f) the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition, (g) the PUP, (h) the UKUP and (i) other political groupings or independent political candidates (i) applied to sit on a District Police Partnership (DPP), (ii) were judged appointable to a DPP and (iii) were appointed to a DPP. [103343] Jane Kennedy: All candidates for appointment as independent members of District Policing Partnerships were asked a political activity monitoring question, in line with the guide to public appointments. The information was not made available to the council or Policing Board panels. The Board panels considered anonymised lists of appointable candidates. The information requested is set out in the following table. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Party Applicants Appointable candidates Appointments UUP 113 64 4 SDLP 44 30 15 DUP 38 18 3 Sinn Fein 1 0 0 Alliance 24 17 7 NIWC 14 10 6 PUP 16 10 1 UKUP 7 5 0 Other: British Labour 1 1 1 Other: Conservative 4 0 0 Other: Democratic Left 1 1 1 Other: Independent 19 15 2 Other: Independent Unionist 3 2 0 Other: Labour Coalition 1 1 1 Other: Labour NI 3 1 0 Other: New Labour 1 0 0 Other: National Labour 1 0 0 Other: Unionist, not specified 2 0 0 Other: OUP 2 1 0 Other: Socialist Party 1 0 0 Other: UDP 4 2 2 Other: Ulster Independent Voice 1 0 0 Other: Ulster Unionist Assembly 1 1 1 Party Other: Ulster Unionist Council 2 2 0 Other: Workers Party 4 3 2 Other: Yes Campaign 1 1 0 Other: Ratepayers Association 2 2 2 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

103343; 401 c807-8W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Northern Ireland Public appointments Political parties Political activities Sinn Féin Democratic Unionist Party Social Democratic & Labour Party Ulster Progressive Unionist Party Ulster Unionist Party District policing partnerships Alliance United Kingdom Unionist Northern Ireland Women's Coalition

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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