Ulster Unionist MLA Captain Doug Beattie MC, has expressed his disappointment at the attitude of some towards the Armed Forces Community, and pointed out the failings of the Northern Ireland Executive in flagrantly disregarding those...
Ulster Unionist education spokesperson Sandra Overend MLA has repeated her party‘s call for the reinstatement of the Literacy and Numeracy Signature Programme, which was discontinued by the Executive last year. Mrs Overend said: “Today’s publication of the...
Ulster Unionist Justice Spokesperson Doug Beattie MC MLA has given his support to calls by the Police Federation to introduce legislation to make assaulting a police officer an offence that carries a mandatory custodial sentence....
North Down Ulster Unionist MLA Alan Chambers has called for action to be taken to ensure that the 2017 Circuit of Ireland Rally goes ahead. Mr Chambers said: "The Circuit of Ireland Rally is one of...
Ulster Unionist Fermanagh and South Tyrone MP Tom Elliott has welcomed comments made by the newly appointed Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, James Brokenshire MP, in which he stated the need for all those...
Ulster Unionist MLA Robin Swann has revealed that the Northern Ireland Executive was forced to pay the European Commission a total of £19m last year due to failures of the Department of Agriculture to administer...
Leader of the Opposition, Mike Nesbitt MLA, has slammed the Department of Health for refusing to name the members of the panel looking at potential reform of the abortions laws. When former Health Minister Simon Hamilton...
Ross Hussey has not broken any law. He is a single man and entitled to a private life. The Party Leader and others have spoken to him and he has accepted fully he acted foolishly. He...
Philip Smith MLA has said calls for a border poll are a distraction and that the Executive should focus on a post-Brexit plan. The Strangford MLA said: “Martin McGuinness needs to get real and stop...
Ulster Unionist MLA, Jo-Anne Dobson, has called on Sammy Wilson MP to withdraw his comments on breast feeding. Jo-Anne Dobson MLA said: “Breast feeding is natural and should be both encouraged and facilitated where practicable....