Throughout the platform round icons are events relating to individuals and their right to have an opinion in particular debates:

Person joining a committee

Person leaving a committee

Person elected to a position

Roll-call

Parchment-coloured, square icons relate to the creation and amending of documents:

Create a new proposal

Create a new document that is a line-by-line revision of another document (noted by the pen icon in the corner)

Document amendment proposed

Document taken from another committee (note arrow in corner)

Amendment taken from another committee

Debate a proposal

Documents that have an explicit subtype can be displayed with a slightly different icon:

Legislative text

Formal Resolutions

A message to be sent elsewhere

A petition to be considered

Rules and Orders of Business

Diamond-shaped, purple icons relate to decisions taken:

Drop a proposal

Refer a proposal to another committee

Adopt a proposal

Other vote (continue debate)

Reject a proposal

Postpone a debate

Blue, hexagon-shaped icons relate to 'procedural' proposals that do not directly alter text but affect how a committee does its work (and are usually used only for transient things, such as a point of order.)

Procedural motion

Procedural motion with sub-decisions

Debate on a procedural motion

Northern Ireland Brooke/Mayhew Talks 1991-1992

WORK IN PROGRESS - IN THE FINAL STAGES OF EDITING A series of talks launched by Peter Brooke, Secretary of State for Northern in Ireland, which began in April 1991, and were carried on intermittently by Brooke and his successor, Patrick Mayhew, until November 1992.

British-Unionist Talks

Meetings between the British Government, the UUP and the DUP. Dates of meetings created from source material, but records of discussions not currently available to us.

To see the full record of a committee, click on the corresponding committee on the map below.

Document introduced in:

Session 12468: 1991-05-03 10:30:00

Bilateral meeting between the Government Team and the Unionist delegations at Parliament Buildings at the beginning of the formal Talks process.

Document View:

Agenda for Preliminary Bilateral Meetings

There are 0 proposed amendments related to this document on which decisions have not been taken.

Agenda for Preliminary Meetings Between the Government Team and the Political Parties

(i) Practical arrangements

(ii) Procedural issues

(iii) Key issues for discussion

(iv) The order in which they might be addressed

(v) General approach to be adopted in initial plenary sessions

(vi) Venue for North/South strand

Decisions yet to be taken

Agenda for Preliminary Bilateral Meetings (introduced on 1991-05-03 10:30:00 - CREATE_FROM - e822723) [This document]

Document Timeline

Agenda for Preliminary Bilateral Meetings (introduced on 1991-05-03 10:30:00 - CREATE_FROM - e822723) [This document] [view current proposal at this moment]

Other Actions

View text build components

This is a development site