About this site

Contacting Claire Sugden

These are Claire Sugden’s official contact details, as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly. This website is independent, so please contact Claire’s office directly.

More about Claire on the NI Assembly website: Claire Sugden’s profile (opens in a new tab).

Gaps in the questions

Claire was the Minister of Justice from 25 May 2016 to 2 March 2017. Ministers answer Assembly questions rather than asking them, so there are no questions from that time.

Where the information comes from

Questions and answers come from the Northern Ireland Assembly Open Data (opens in a new tab) service. The site checks for new questions and answers every day. Answers given orally in the Assembly Chamber are taken from the Official Report (Hansard). The photo is from Claire Sugden’s NI Assembly profile (opens in a new tab).

Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (opens in a new tab).

At the last update (24 October 2026) there were 4,813 questions to 13 departments and bodies: 4,683 written questions and 130 oral questions.

What the terms mean

Written question (AQW)

A question tabled for a written answer from a minister or the Assembly Commission.

Oral question (AQO)

A question tabled for answer during Question Time in the Assembly Chamber. If it is not reached in the time available, it gets a written answer instead.

Priority written question

A written question the MLA has asked to be answered sooner than usual.

Answer due by

The date the Assembly sets for the answer. “Answered after due date” means the answer was published after this date. “Past due date” means there was no answer by this date.

Not on the NI Assembly website yet

New questions appear in the Assembly’s open data before they’re published on its website. Until a question appears there, we don’t link to it. The site checks again at every update.

Days to answer

Calendar days between the question being tabled and answered.

Mentions East Londonderry

The question or answer names East Londonderry places, Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council, or the Northern or Western trusts. This is a simple text match, so it may miss some local questions or include some from neighbouring areas.

Downloading the data

On the questions page you can download the questions matching your search and filters as CSV (for spreadsheets), JSON or XML. The full data set is also available as JSON.

Accessibility

This site aims to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA. Text contrast is well above the AA minimum throughout. Links to other websites open in a new tab and are marked with an icon; screen readers announce this too. Every feature works with a keyboard and screen reader, the page respects reduced-motion settings, and text can be resized to 200% without loss of content.

Some answers contain tables supplied by government departments without header rows; we show them as published.