PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Culture: Northern Ireland (4 April 2019)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what support her Department is providing for the maintenance of the cultural traditions of Northern Ireland's loyalist community.
Asked by:
Sir John Hayes (Conservative)
Asked by:
Sir John Hayes (Conservative)
Answer
Culture is a devolved policy area in Northern Ireland. The Government provides the block grant each year, from which the Northern Ireland Executive allocates funding.
I visited the Twelfth of July parades last year in Newtownards. I have also met representatives of the loyal orders and wider loyalist community on a number of occasions, as have my Ministerial colleagues and officials.
Answered by:
Dame Karen Bradley (Conservative)
10 April 2019
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