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Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill

We will debate those matters in due course. If the hon. Gentleman, who holds the distinguished position of Chairman of the Select Committee on Northern Ireland Affairs, looks, as I know that he has done, at the pledge of office that is in place for Ministers, he will see that the very points that he makes are intrinsic in that. [Hon. Members: ““They are not.””] Let me finish the point. As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has done, I have also said that, as part of the discussions on the way forward for the Assembly, the question of discussion on the pledge of office is open for consideration, and a strengthening of that pledge of office could be considered in due course by the Assembly and by the Government.