Question follow-through · 82701
Terrorism: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate he has made of the number of civil cases expected to be reopened as a result of repealing the Northern Ireland Legacy Act 2023 and replacing it with the Northern Ireland Troubles Bill 2025.
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- Answering body
- Northern Ireland Office
- Tabled
- 16 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 21 Oct 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate he has made of the number of civil cases expected to be reopened as a result of repealing the Northern Ireland Legacy Act 2023 and replacing it with the Northern Ireland Troubles Bill 2025.
21 Oct 2025
Target answer date
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21 Oct 2025
Answer published
The 2023 Legacy Act did not prohibit Troubles-related civil cases from proceeding, meaning that over 700 cases remain in the judicial system. The Legacy Act’s retrospective bar on new civil cases was found to be incompatible with our human rights obligati...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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