evidence: According to a "Government Stringency Index", the UK has one of the strictest lockdown policies in the world, but the Northern Ireland Executive’s response is not the strictest within the UK. [...] "… I am pointing out that Northern Ireland is one of the most locked-down places in the world with regard to controlling access to education, closing off huge swathes of our economy and all the resultant trouble that will come from that." [...] Thanks to a research project at the University of Oxford, we can compare responses by governments to the coronavirus pandemic. According to a "Government Stringency Index", the UK has one of the strictest lockdown policies in the world, but the Northern Ireland Executive’s response is not the strictest within the UK.