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Dawn Purvis MLA
 Name: Dawn Purvis
Party: Progressive Unionist Party
Constituency: Belfast East
Contact Address:

Parliament Buildings
Belfast
BT4 3XX
Constituency Office Address: 299 Newtonards Road
Belfast
Bt4 1AG
Telephone Number: 02890521469 / 028 90225040
E-Mail Address: Dawn.Purvis@niassembly.gov.uk

 

Place and Date of Birth: Belfast 22-10-1966
Married: No - Divorced
Family: 2 Sons
Education:

1977 - 1982 Deramore School
1998 - 2000 BIFHE
2000 - 2003 Queens University Belfast
BA Honours First Class Socialogy & Social Policy

Occupation and brief
outline of career:

2004 - 2007 Academic Research
1998 - 2004 Assembly Co-ordinator
1996 - 1998 Party Co-ordinator All Party Talks
Previous Career in Health Service

Brief outline of public/
political career:

2006 - 2007 Member Northern Ireland Policing Board
2007 - Member Northern Ireland Assembly

Other memberships/ interests/
achievements/awards:

2007 - Leader, Progressive Unionist Party
2007 - Member, Committee for Finance and Personnel
2007 - Member, Public Accounts Committee
2007 - NI Assembly Business Trust
2007 - Member, All Party Assembly Group on Children and Young People
2007 - Member, All Party Assembly Group on Ethnic Minority Communities
2007 - Member, The David Ervine Foundation
2006 - Vice-Chair, Ex-Prisoners Interpretive Centre (EPIC)
2006 - Hon Treasurer, (Sicne 2008) Healing Through Remembering