Northern Ireland Affairs Committee - Seventh Report
Progress towards devolution in Northern Ireland during the 2005 Parliament

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Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 24 March 2010.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary

1 Devolution in Northern Ireland

2 Crime and punishment

The devolution of policing and justice

The need for patience

Policing

Accountability and independence

Challenges for the PSNI

Dissident activity

Decommissioning

Justice

The Court Service

The Public Prosecution Service

Representation

The cost of justice

Prisons and probation

Prisons

Probation

3 Northern Ireland Affairs

The future of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee and the NIO

The work of this Committee

Our inquiries

Conclusion

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

List of written evidence

Appendices

Appendix 1: The Omagh bombing

Letter to the Chair of the Committee from the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 18 March 2010

Letter to Rt Hon. Dr Kim Howells MP, Chair, Intelligence and Security Committee from the Chair of the Committee, 17 March 2010

Letter to the Chair from the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 7 December 2009

Letter from the Prime Minister to Sir Patrick Cormack, Chair of the Committee, 14 September 2009

Appendix 2: The Consultative Group on the Past

Letter to the Chair from the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 26 February 2010

Appendix 3: Bloody Sunday Inquiry

Letter to the Chair from the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 19 March 2010

Letter from Rt Hon. the Lord Saville of Newdigate to Sir Patrick Cormack, Chair of the Committee, 11 March 2010

Letter to Rt Hon. the Lord Saville of Newdigate from the Chair of the Committee, 3 March 2010

Letter to the Chair from Rt Hon. the Lord Saville of Newdigate, 7 October 2009

Letter to Rt Hon. the Lord Saville of Newdigate from the Chair of the Committee, 24 September 2009

Letter to the Chair from the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 25 August 2009

Appendix 4: Financial memoranda relating to the Northern Ireland Office

Memorandum submitted from the Northern Ireland Office relating to the 2009-10 Spring Supplementary Estimate

Memorandum submitted from the Northern Ireland Office relating to the 2009-10 Winter Supplementary Estimate

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

Oral and Written Evidence
25 January 2010
25 January 2010 (cont)
26 January 2010
Written Evidence

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Prepared 1 April 2010