Mr Alan Chambers

Title: Mr
Official Last Name: Chambers
Official First Name: Alan
Usual First Name: Alan
Party: Ulster Unionist Party
Constituency: North Down

Biography

Party History

Party	Role	Period
Ulster Unionist Party	Party Member	05/05/2022 - Present
Ulster Unionist Party	Party Member	02/03/2017 - 27/03/2022
Ulster Unionist Party	Party Member	05/05/2016 - 25/01/2017

MLA History

Date	Constituency	Designation
12/05/2016	North Down	Unionist, First Elected
13/03/2017	North Down	Unionist, Re-elected
13/05/2022	North Down	Unionist, Re-elected

Office/Committee History

Period	Position	Office/Committee
12/02/2024 - Present	Committee Member	Committee for Health
06/02/2024 - Present	Committee Chair	Audit Committee
06/02/2024 - Present	Committee Member	Chairpersons' Liaison Group
17/10/2024 - 08/11/2024	Committee Member	Concurrent Committee of the Committee for Justice and the Committee for Health
02/02/2024 - 03/02/2024	Acting Speaker	Northern Ireland Assembly
17/01/2024 - 18/01/2024	Acting Speaker	Northern Ireland Assembly
14/02/2023 - 15/02/2023	Acting Speaker	Northern Ireland Assembly
07/12/2022 - 08/12/2022	Acting Speaker	Northern Ireland Assembly
03/08/2022 - 04/08/2022	Acting Speaker	Northern Ireland Assembly
30/05/2022 - 31/05/2022	Acting Speaker	Northern Ireland Assembly
18/02/2022 - 25/02/2022	Committee Member	Concurrent Committee of the Committee for Health and the Committee for Justice
03/02/2022 - 10/02/2022	Committee Member	Concurrent Committee of the Committee for Health and the Committee for Education
28/06/2021 - 18/02/2022	Committee Member	Ad Hoc Committee on a Bill of Rights
25/06/2021 - 02/07/2021	Committee Member	Concurrent Committee of the Committee for Justice and the Committee for Health
25/06/2021 - 28/06/2021	Committee Member	Ad Hoc Committee on a Bill of Rights
31/03/2020 - 28/03/2022	Committee Member	Ad Hoc Committee on the COVID-19 Response
10/02/2020 - 28/03/2022	Committee Member	Committee for Health
20/01/2020 - 10/02/2020	Committee Member	Committee for the Economy
20/01/2020 - 27/03/2022	Committee Member	Audit Committee
31/05/2016 - 25/01/2017	Committee Member	Committee for the Economy

All Party Group History

Period	Position	All Party Group
18/02/2022 - 27/03/2022	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party Group on Rare Disease
07/12/2020 - 27/03/2022	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party Group on Micro and Small Business
26/09/2016 - 25/01/2017	Assembly Party Group Secretary	All Party Group on Hospitality and Tourism

Contacts

Register of Interests

Assembly Questions

Session:

21 Questions, Page 1 of 3

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Note: [R] indicates a registered declaration of interest

AQW 53154/22-27

Mr Alan Chambers
(UUP - North Down)

To ask the Minister for Infrastructure, pursuant to AQW 51961/22-27, to detail any direct discussions her Department officials had with business owners in Groomsport, in regard to the recent road closure of the B511 Bangor Road, Groomsport. [Priority Written]

28/09/2026

To be answered by 06/10/2026

AQW 53153/22-27

Mr Alan Chambers
(UUP - North Down)

To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any measures her Department is currently taking to improve the performance of Wastewater Treatment Works that discharge directly into Belfast Lough.

28/09/2026

To be answered by 13/10/2026

AQW 53152/22-27

Mr Alan Chambers
(UUP - North Down)

To ask the Minister of Justice whether it is her Department's policy to have an official present at all court hearings relating to the responsibilities of her Department.

28/09/2026

To be answered by 13/10/2026

AQO 4061/22-27

Mr Alan Chambers
(UUP - North Down)

To ask the Minister of Education for an update on the rebuild of Bangor Central Integrated Primary School.

24/09/2026

To be answered on 06/10/2026

AQO 4041/22-27

Mr Alan Chambers
(UUP - North Down)

To ask the Minister for the Economy whether it is still a priority of her Department to encourage and facilitate restoration of a direct air link between Belfast and a major airline hub in the United States of America.

24/09/2026

To be answered on 05/10/2026

AQW 52495/22-27

Mr Alan Chambers
(UUP - North Down)

To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the rationale for the decision not to place a directional reflective traffic bollard at the former flower bed structure at the junction of the Donaghadee Road and Groomsport Road, Bangor. [Priority Written]

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21/09/2026

Answered on 30/09/2026

AQW 52494/22-27

Mr Alan Chambers
(UUP - North Down)

To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail (i) when her Department plans to reinstate the road markings in the disabled parking bay, outside the Co-op shop on Groomsport Road, Bangor; and (ii) whether the absence of visible markings renders misuse of this disabled parking bay unenforceable.

21/09/2026

To be answered by 06/10/2026

AQW 52493/22-27

Mr Alan Chambers
(UUP - North Down)

To ask the Minister for Communities whether a Local Government Council requires sign off from his Department before purchasing land.

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21/09/2026

Answered on 30/09/2026

AQW 52492/22-27

Mr Alan Chambers
(UUP - North Down)

To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether her Department has any plans to update the Northern Ireland Highway Code, to bring it into line with the current United Kingdom version.

21/09/2026

To be answered by 06/10/2026

AQW 52491/22-27

Mr Alan Chambers
(UUP - North Down)

To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether the designated parking bay outside Groomsport Road, Bangor, and opposite the junction with Bellevue, meets the Highway Code advice that parking should not be permitted within 15 metres of any junction.

21/09/2026

To be answered by 06/10/2026

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