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Police Recruitment

Volume 453: debated on Thursday 23 November 2006

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when he plans to end positive discrimination in police recruitment in Northern Ireland. (101383)

The temporary 50:50 recruitment measures are being applied in order to provide a more representative police service in Northern Ireland. The goal is to achieve a 30 per cent. Catholic composition by 2010-11. Annexe B of the St Andrews Agreement makes it clear that the 50:50 arrangement will lapse when the target for Catholic officers has been achieved.