Jim Shannon – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Northern Ireland Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2015-12-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what additional funding the Government plans to provide for monitoring and observation of terrorist activities by the Security Service in Northern Ireland.

Mrs Theresa Villiers

It would not be appropriate for me to comment on matters which are the responsibility of the security and intelligence agencies.

The recently published Strategic Defence and Security Review includes a commitment from the UK Government to invest in capabilities needed to keep the people of the UK safe. As part of this, the Government has allocated £160 million of additional security funding to the Police Service of Northern Ireland over the next five years in order to tackle the threat from Northern Ireland Related Terrorism.