Police: Northern Ireland Question Asked by Lord Maginnis of Drumglass To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Baroness Royall of Blaisdon on 15 March (WA 168), for what particular purposes the £800 million funding agreed in the context of devolution of policing and justice in Northern Ireland was intended, which would not have been allocated had the devolution of policing and justice not occurred. [HL3205] Baroness Royall of Blaisdon The funding was predicated on the creation of a new justice department.