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Budget (Northern Ireland) Order 2006

The short answer and the sincere answer to that has to be ““yes””. I put the issues the noble Lord raised with me last July and subsequently to the head of the Civil Service in Northern Ireland; they did not just go into the department. So far as I know, I still have some responses to the noble Lord outstanding on the particular issues he raised about duplicate applications. I saw the documents for myself. It did look like slipshod and unsatisfactory work. As to what happens on which date, I cannot be sure, but the issue he has raised today, along with the outstanding points, will certainly be put and answers provided. On Question, Motion agreed to.