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Northern Ireland

Volume 829: debated on Friday 28 January 1972

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asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what steps he has taken to implement his assurance that he would discuss detailed suggestions about internment with the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland;

and what has been the result of such discussions;

(2) if he can now state the result of the examination which he announced on 29th November, 1971, into changing the present system of internment in Northern Ireland.

I refer the hon. Member to the replies I gave to his Questions on 20th December, 1971.—[Vol 828, c. 253–4.]

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he hopes to open the inter-party talks on Northern Ireland at Westminster; and what numbers of representatives from each party will be invited.

I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to Questions by my hon. Friend the Member for Belfast, North (Mr. Stratton Mills) on 9th December, 1971.—[Vol. 827, c. 364.]