NI Executive Confidentiality Duty
COVID-19 Inquiry · Module 2: Core Decision-Making · Issued 20 November 2025 · Addressed to: The Executive Office
Source — verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation
The Executive Office should amend the Ministerial Code to impose a duty of confidentiality on ministers that prohibits the disclosure of the individual views of ministers expressed during meetings of the Northern Ireland Executive Committee.
COVID-19 Inquiry, Module 2: Core Decision-Making · 20 Nov 2025 Source PDF →
Published evidence summary
Publicly available evidence relating to this recommendation:
- The UK government stated in its Module 2 response (25 March 2026) that this recommendation is not for it to respond to (UK Government Response to the Covid-19 Inquiry Module 2 Report, CP 1534, 25 March 2026).
- No published response from the Northern Ireland Executive Office has been identified.
Sources
How was this evidence gathered?
Response — verbatim from government
●Northern Ireland Executive — initial response
No formal response published by this government.
Northern Ireland Executive · 20 Nov 2025
●UK Government — follow-up
This recommendation is not for the UK government to respond to.
UK Government · 25 Mar 2026 Written response →
Evidence trail — what's actually happened since
- 20 Nov 2025 Status: Pending. No government response yet received. Module 2 report published 20 November 2025. Source →
Each entry above links to a primary source — gov.uk written statement, consultation response document, or inspection report. The Index does not characterise government intent; it tracks what has been published.
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Source and Response are verbatim from primary documents. The Evidence trail records published activity since — written statements, consultation outcomes, inspection findings, parliamentary references. The Index does not paraphrase or characterise intent; it tracks what has been published. Where the evidence is the absence of action (a missed deadline, a slipped timetable), that absence is documented from primary sources rather than inferred.
This recommendation's data is verified periodically against primary sources. The Index is monitored for staleness weekly.