The Ulster Unionist Party Chairman, Danny Kennedy, has paid tribute to Mrs Olive M Whitten MBE who passed away following illness. Mr Kennedy described Mrs Whitten as an outstanding Party stalwart who had served for many...
Health Minister Robin Swann is providing an additional £66,000 funding to ensure the continuation of the Derry Crisis Intervention Service. Recognising the current challenges for Extern in securing sustainable funding for the service, Minister Swann made...
Danny Kennedy, Chairman of the Ulster Unionist Party, said: “The Ulster Unionist Council has unanimously ratified Doug Beattie MC MLA as the Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party. Mr Beattie`s ratification took place at the conclusion...
Communities to bring forward welfare reform mitigation legislation without any further delay. Mr Allen said: “The 2021-22 budget contains £42.8 million to enable the Department for Communities to not only formally extend the current mitigations but...
The vaccination programme in Northern Ireland will today open for everyone aged 18 and over. More than one million people have now had at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine – over 70% of our...
Dr Steve Aiken OBE MLA UUP Finance and BREXIT spokesperson said: “Despite the ongoing crisis in Belarus and the EU’s failure to get a grip on CoVID, President Ursula von der Leyen took the opportunity yesterday...
The Ulster Unionist Party’s East Antrim MLA John Stewart, is calling on the PSNI and Garda to investigate claims made in a recent video posted online by Bellaghy Sinn Fein in tribute to the IRA...
Ulster Unionist Party MLA Steve Aiken, who is also the Chair of the Assembly’s Finance Committee, has said that the Health Department needs to be properly funded, and called on the Northern Ireland Executive to...
Health Minister Robin Swann has said a “huge collective effort” has brought Northern Ireland to the point where COVID-19 restrictions can be significantly eased. And he has called for that commitment to be maintained to ensure...
Following a meeting with the PSNI Chief Constable, Simon Byrne, UUP Leader Doug Beattie MC MLA said: “This afternoon I and UUP Policing Board member, Mike Nesbitt MLA, met with the Chief Constable and his team. ...