Following an audit of the Education Authority’s 2017-18 accounts which confirmed an overspend of £16.6 million, Ulster Unionist Education Spokesperson Rosemary Barton MLA has said that whilst the shortfall was concerning, it was half of...
Ulster Unionist leader, Robin Swann MLA, has stated that unless the issue of the backstop is addressed, the Prime Minister`s woes will continue. Mr Swann said: “Twenty one years on from the signing of the Belfast...
The Ulster Unionist Party’s candidate for the Slieve Croob area, Alan Lewis, has condemned those behind the mortar launching tube discovered outside Castlewellan on Monday. Alan Lewis said: “This discovery is a clear and stark reminder...
Ulster Unionist Peer Lord Empey has said that Leo Varadkar’s weekend call for the UK Government to implement border checks at Northern Ireland ports in the event of a no deal Brexit, is proof that...
Ulster Unionist Communities Spokesperson Robbie Butler MLA has called on the Department for Communities to intervene after it was revealed that the charity Planning Landscape Architecture Community Environment (PLACE) is set to close, after the Arts...
The following Platform piece appeared in the Belfast Telegraph on Thursday 4th April 2019. "After two failed attempts in Parliament to reach a consensus on an alternative way forward to the Prime Minister's Withdrawal Agreement,...
The Ulster Unionist Party has learned that the Department for Communities has recently revoked the legal indemnity used to protect PIP appeal panel members when accessing medical notes.This means that individual panel members are personally liable for...
The following Platform piece by the party Justice Spokesperson, Doug Beattie MC MLA, appeared in the Newsletter on Wednesday 03rd April 2019. "It is time that we, as a society, understood what our police force...
Ulster Unionist Party Leader, Robin Swann MLA, has welcomed the EU’s approval for the renewal of Northern Ireland’s nitrates derogation.Following their decision to drop several of the major ammonia measures, he commended DAERA for listening...
Ulster Unionist East Antrim MLA John Stewart has written to the Director of Public Prosecutions asking for a review of the sentence handed out to a local youth football coach from Larne, who pleaded guilty...