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Mr Jim Allister

Title: Mr
Official Last Name: Allister
Official First Name: Jim
Usual First Name: Jim
Date of Birth: 02/04/1953
Party: Traditional Unionist Voice
Constituency: North Antrim

Biography

Party History

Party	Role	Period
Traditional Unionist Voice	Party Member	02/03/2017 - Present
Traditional Unionist Voice	Party Member	05/05/2016 - 25/01/2017
Traditional Unionist Voice	Party Member	05/05/2011 - 30/03/2016

MLA History

Date	Constituency	Designation
12/05/2011	North Antrim	Unionist, First Elected
12/05/2016	North Antrim	Unionist, Re-elected
13/03/2017	North Antrim	Unionist, Re-elected

Office/Committee History

Period	Position	Office/Committee
16/06/2020 - Present	Committee Member	Audit Committee
31/03/2020 - Present	Committee Member	Ad Hoc Committee on the COVID-19 Response
20/01/2020 - Present	Committee Member	Committee for Finance
20/01/2020 - Present	Committee Member	Assembly and Executive Review Committee
31/05/2016 - 25/01/2017	Committee Member	Committee for Finance
31/05/2016 - 25/01/2017	Committee Member	Assembly and Executive Review Committee
09/09/2013 - 30/03/2016	Committee Member	Committee for Social Development
28/05/2012 - 29/05/2012	Committee Member	Joint meeting of the Committee for Employment and Learning and the Committee for Education
23/05/2011 - 30/03/2016	Committee Member	Committee on Procedures
23/05/2011 - 09/09/2013	Committee Member	Committee for Employment and Learning

All Party Group History

Period	Position	All Party Group
01/07/2020 - Present	Assembly Party Group Member	All Party Group on Fair Banking and Finance
28/01/2020 - Present	Assembly Party Group Member	All Party Group on Football
12/04/2018 - Present	Assembly Party Group Member	All Party Group on Visual Impairment
28/06/2016 - 25/01/2017	Assembly Party Group Secretary	All Party Group on Human Life
28/06/2016 - 25/01/2017	Assembly Party Group Member	All Party Group on Human Life
28/06/2016 - 25/01/2017	Assembly Party Group Member	All Party Group on Community and Voluntary Sector
27/06/2016 - 25/01/2017	Assembly Party Group Member	All Party Group on Visual Impairment
18/11/2015 - 30/03/2016	Assembly Party Group Secretary	All Party Group on Human Life
07/10/2013 - 30/03/2016	Assembly Party Group Member	All Party Group on Visual Impairment
30/06/2011 - 30/03/2016	Assembly Party Group Member	All Party Group on Pro-Life
14/06/2011 - 30/03/2016	Assembly Party Group Member	All Party Group on Community and Voluntary Sector

Contacts

Register of Interests

Assembly Questions

Session:

535 Questions, Page 1 of 54

Note: [R] indicates a registered declaration of interest

AQW 15659/17-22

Mr Jim Allister
(TUV - North Antrim)

To ask the Minister of Health what drugs were prescribed to treat hypothyroidism prior to the development of levothyroxine.

02/03/2021

To be answered by 18/03/2021

AQW 15658/17-22

Mr Jim Allister
(TUV - North Antrim)

To ask the Minister of Health when Levothyroxine was first prescribed by the Health Service for hypothyroidism.

02/03/2021

To be answered by 18/03/2021

AQW 15657/17-22

Mr Jim Allister
(TUV - North Antrim)

To ask the Minister of Health when the Health Service stopped prescribing Natural Desiccated Thyroid for hypothyroidism.

02/03/2021

To be answered by 18/03/2021

AQW 15656/17-22

Mr Jim Allister
(TUV - North Antrim)

To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail what funding has been given by their Department to the Centre for Cross Border Studies in each of the last three years.

02/03/2021

To be answered by 18/03/2021

AQW 15655/17-22

Mr Jim Allister
(TUV - North Antrim)

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the Official Controls Regulation charges which would ordinarily be due to Northern Ireland businesses under the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland.

02/03/2021

To be answered by 18/03/2021

AQW 15555/17-22

Mr Jim Allister
(TUV - North Antrim)

To ask the Minister of Health what use he anticipates making of the private sector in assisting the Health Service in reducing the waiting list backlog caused by the pandemic.

01/03/2021

To be answered by 16/03/2021

AQW 15554/17-22

Mr Jim Allister
(TUV - North Antrim)

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs whether the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland-inspired changes requiring GB ear tags to be removed from cattle brought in from GB will be implemented.

01/03/2021

To be answered by 16/03/2021

AQW 15553/17-22

Mr Jim Allister
(TUV - North Antrim)

To ask the Minister of Justice whether she will review the adequacy of the oversight of adherence to Family Proceedings Court directions, particularly in regard to the rights of non-resident parents.

01/03/2021

To be answered by 16/03/2021

AQW 15552/17-22

Mr Jim Allister
(TUV - North Antrim)

To ask the Minister of Education whether he will review the adequacy of the arrangements for input by non-resident parents (who desire such) into educational choices affecting their children, including the choice of post-primary school.

01/03/2021

To be answered by 16/03/2021

AQW 15551/17-22

Mr Jim Allister
(TUV - North Antrim)

To ask the Assembly Commission what steps have been taken to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism in connection with the Assembly’s public-facing activities.

01/03/2021

To be answered by 16/03/2021

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