Ms Joanne Bunting

Title: Ms
Official Last Name: Bunting
Official First Name: Joanne
Usual First Name: Joanne
Party: Democratic Unionist Party
Constituency: East Belfast

Biography

Party History

Party	Role	Period
Democratic Unionist Party	Party Member	02/03/2017 - Present
Democratic Unionist Party	Party Member	05/05/2016 - 25/01/2017

MLA History

Date	Constituency	Designation
12/05/2016	East Belfast	Unionist, First Elected
13/03/2017	East Belfast	Unionist, Re-elected

Office/Committee History

Period	Position	Office/Committee
21/06/2021 - Present	Committee Member	Committee on Procedures
07/06/2021 - Present	Committee Member	Business Committee
31/03/2020 - Present	Committee Member	Ad Hoc Committee on the COVID-19 Response
16/04/2020 - 14/06/2021	Committee Deputy Chair	Audit Committee
20/01/2020 - 16/04/2020	Committee Member	Audit Committee
31/05/2016 - 25/01/2017	Committee Member	Committee on Standards and Privileges

All Party Group History

Period	Position	All Party Group
23/11/2020 - Present	Assembly Party Group Member	All Party Group on Animal Welfare
20/10/2020 - Present	Assembly Party Group Chairperson	All Party Group on Modern Slavery
30/09/2020 - Present	Assembly Party Group Chairperson	All Party Group on Terminal Illness
09/05/2017 - Present	Assembly Party Group Member	All Party Group on Cycling
26/09/2016 - 25/01/2017	Assembly Party Group Member	All Party Group on Hospitality and Tourism
20/06/2016 - 25/01/2017	Assembly Party Group Member	All Party Group on Epilepsy

Contacts

Register of Interests

Assembly Questions

Session:

24 Questions, Page 1 of 3

Note: [R] indicates a registered declaration of interest

AQW 24565/17-22

Ms Joanne Bunting
(DUP - East Belfast)

To ask the Minister of Health how many spaces are available for NHS dental care in dental practices, broken down by constituency.

19/10/2021

To be answered by 03/11/2021

AQW 24564/17-22

Ms Joanne Bunting
(DUP - East Belfast)

To ask the Minister of Health what action he is taking to address the difficulty for those NHS dental patients who wish to transfer to another practice when many practices no longer accept NHS patients.

19/10/2021

To be answered by 03/11/2021

AQW 24563/17-22

Ms Joanne Bunting
(DUP - East Belfast)

To ask the Minister of Health how many patients have had to use private dental care as a result of the lack of NHS dental care availability, over the last five years.

19/10/2021

To be answered by 03/11/2021

AQW 24562/17-22

Ms Joanne Bunting
(DUP - East Belfast)

To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of people (i) registered for NHS dental care; (ii) registered for private dental care; and (iii) not registered for dental care, broken down by age range.

19/10/2021

To be answered by 03/11/2021

AQW 24561/17-22

Ms Joanne Bunting
(DUP - East Belfast)

To ask the Minister of Health how many dental practices are still accepting new or transferring NHS patients.

19/10/2021

To be answered by 03/11/2021

AQO 2662/17-22

Ms Joanne Bunting
(DUP - East Belfast)

To ask the Minister of Justice what discussions has she had with the Minister for Health regarding the time that police spend supervising vulnerable persons.

14/10/2021

To be answered on 02/11/2021

AQW 24309/17-22

Ms Joanne Bunting
(DUP - East Belfast)

To ask the Minister for Infrastructure, given that drivers are struggling to book an MOT test and that the system is operating beyond capacity, what plans has she to upgrade the MOT Test booking system.

14/10/2021

To be answered by 29/10/2021

AQW 24308/17-22

Ms Joanne Bunting
(DUP - East Belfast)

To ask the Minister for Communities whether Northern Ireland has Family Intervention Tenancies or anything similar.

14/10/2021

To be answered by 29/10/2021

AQW 24307/17-22

Ms Joanne Bunting
(DUP - East Belfast)

To ask the Minister of Justice whether her Department is undertaking any research into victims of crime becoming perpetrators of crime and the correlation between the types of crime involved.

14/10/2021

To be answered by 29/10/2021

AQW 24220/17-22

Ms Joanne Bunting
(DUP - East Belfast)

To ask the Minister of Justice to outline which Department (i) holds responsibility; and (ii) funds each of the Tackling Paramilitarism programmes and the elements therein.

13/10/2021

To be answered by 28/10/2021

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