- Edwin Poots
Infobox Politician | name=Edwin Poots MLA
width=144px
office = Minister for Culture, Arts and Leisure
term_start = May 8, 2007
term_end = June 9, 2008
predecessor=Michael McGimpsey
successor=Gregory Campbell
constituency_AM2= Lagan Valley
assembly2=Northern Ireland
birth_date=1965
birth_place=Northern Ireland
party=Democratic Unionist Party
spouse=
website=http://www.dup.org.uk/EdwinPoots.aspAlderman Edwin Poots MLA (b. 1965) is a Northern Irish politician and aDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP)Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Lagan Valley. He is one of three DUP MLAs for Lagan Valley.Poots was born in 1965 and was educated at the
Wallace High School ,Lisburn , and thenGreenmount Agricultural College . He is married with four children. He is afarmer and serves onLisburn City Council . Hisfather ,Charles Poots was also a DUP politician, having stood in the 1969 Northern Ireland General Election for theProtestant Unionist Party .Poots was a member of the Environment Committee and chaired the Committee of the Centre (i.e. Committee for the Office of the First and Deputy First Ministers) in the 1998-2003 Assembly. On 8 May, 2007, he was appointed Minister for Culture, Arts and Leisure in the
Northern Ireland Executive , a post he held until 9 June, 2008, when a cabinet re-shuffle saw this post being reassigned toGregory Campbell . It has been speculated that he was removed as Minister for Culture due to his support of the Maze stadium proposals [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7444742.stm BBC: Poots dropped as culture minister] ] . He was subsequently made Deputy Mayor ofLisburn on June 23rd [http://www.lisburncity.gov.uk/news-and-events/press-releases/?id=503]Poots is a young earth creationist and an opponent of the theory of
evolution . [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2007/12/are_religious_politicians_nutt.html BBC Northern Ireland William Crawley's blog] ]References
External links
* [http://www.dcalni.gov.uk Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure]
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