Member

I would like to address some of the concerns of the noble Lord, Lord Bew, around the Windsor Framework; we will meet to discuss them in more detail. He rightly raised the fact that, for the first time, there was not a British Minister at the British-Irish Council. I was on my honeymoon, so I give my apologies; that was also the week that we published the legacy legislation—the remedial order—in the other place and in your Lordships’ House. It was because of parliamentary demands that no Minister went. We will make sure there is a Minister at future engagements and we have been clear with the organisers to that extent, too.