08 Feb, 2023 Apprenticeships key to narrowing the skills gap: Buckley Upper Bann MLA Jonathan Buckley has marked National Apprenticeship Week and highlighted the key role that narrowing the skills gap has in growing the economy.
08 Feb, 2023 Lockhart urges Secretary of State to act on Daithi’s Law Upper Bann DUP MP Carla Lockhart has called on the Secretary of State to progress secondary legislation provisions in the House of Commons, that would allow new organ donation rules to be introduced in Northern Ireland.
08 Feb, 2023 Protocol must be replaced with arrangements unionists can support DUP Leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP has spoken outside the Supreme Court in London and urged the Government to recognise how their own arguments in the case explain why unionism has rejected the Protocol.
07 Feb, 2023 Lockhart – Protocol has undermined stability The DUP’s Upper Bann MP Carla Lockhart has reminded former Prime Minister Sir John Major that every unionist MLA and MP opposes the Protocol. Mrs Lockhart also called for the Protocol to be replaced with arrangements that unionists as well as nationalists can support.
07 Feb, 2023 DUP Group propose alterative rate in Mid Ulster District Council Speaking following the rates meeting DUP group leader Cllr Paul McLean said
06 Feb, 2023 It’s time to take notice of the unsustainable way NI is financed East Belfast MP Gavin Robinson has highlighted that in the next three years, some £2,000 will fall from per household public service expenditure for Northern Ireland in real terms.He wants to start the debate on the unsustainable way that Northern Ireland is financed.
06 Feb, 2023 Middleton welcomes North West jobs boost Foyle MLA Gary Middleton has welcomed the creation of over 300 new jobs in the North West. Regulatory Solutions company FinTru has announced the jobs as part of plans to invest over £20million and it will see the company’s North West operation double in size.
03 Feb, 2023 Need for progress on Dáithí's Law is vital DUP Leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and Health Spokesperson Paul Givan met wtith Dáithí MacGabhann and his father Màirtín this morning to discuss issues facing the progression of Daithi’s Law.
03 Feb, 2023 Sir Jeffrey - "Protocol must be replaced with arrangements that unionists can support" DUP Leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP has met with Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin in Belfast where they discussed the need for the Protocol to be replaced with arrangements that unionists can support. They also discussed the Republic of Ireland’s role in the statutory inquiry into the Omagh Bomb. DUP Legacy spokesperson Emma Little-Pengelly MLA and EU Exit spokesman Gordon Lyons MLA were also part of the DUP delegation.