Belfast News: MLA's That Keep It In The Family

The Northern Ireland Assembly has published it register of member's interests for the current term and has revealed that 39 of our new MLAs have registered interests indicating that they either employ or use services for family members or that they employ, have employed or bought services from other member's families. The member's interests show:

Alex Attwood - employs brother as a constituency assistant
Roy Beggs - employs wife as a secretary
Jonathan Bell - employs wife as a secretary / researcher and the son and daughter-in-law of Peter Robinson as Constituency Manager and part-time secretary (respec).
Thomas Buchanan - employs wife for part time constituency casework
Gregory Campbell - employs nephew of George Robinson as a researcher
Trevor Clarke - employs wife as a part-time clerical assistant
Jonathan Craig - has bought services from brother-in-law
Leslie Cree MBE - employs wife as a part-time researcher
John Dallat - employs wife as an office administrator
Jo-Anne Dobson - employs sister as a clerical officer
Sammy Douglas - employs son as a researcher
Gordon Dunne - employs son as a researcher
Alex Easton - employs wife as a clerical officer
Stephen Farry - employs wife as a senior researcher
Paul Frew - employs wife as a personal assistant and researcher
Paul Girvan - employs son as a researcher
Paul Givan - employs wife as a research assistant
Brenda Hale - employed brother-in-law to refurbish constituency office
William Hay - employs brother-in-law as an office manager
William Irwin - employs daughter as a office assistant
Dolores Kelly - employs daughter as a constituency assistant
Pam Lewis - employs son as a clerical/research assistant
Anna Lo MBE - has bought supplies from husband's company
Fra McCann - employs niece of Paul and Alex Maskey as a personal assistant
Kieran McCarthy - employs son for general office duties

Last Updated: 1st July 2011