Member of the Legislative Assembly for Belfast North
In office 26 November 2003 – 25 January 2017[1]
Preceded by
Fraser Agnew
Succeeded by
Seat abolished
High Sheriff of Belfast
In office 1997–1998
Preceded by
Steve McBride
Succeeded by
Jim Clarke
Member of Belfast City Council
In office 7 June 2001 – 5 May 2011
Preceded by
Fred Proctor
Succeeded by
Gareth McKee
Constituency
Oldpark
In office 17 May 1989 – 7 June 2011
Preceded by
Alfred Redpath
Succeeded by
Ian Crozier
Constituency
Castle
Personal details
Born
(1951-08-15) 15 August 1951 (age 72) Belfast, Northern Ireland
Nationality
British
Political party
Democratic Unionist Party (2001 - present) Ulster Unionist Party (1993 - 2001)
Other political affiliations
Independent Unionist (1984 - 1993) United Ulster Unionist (1982)
Alma mater
Queen's University Belfast Worcester College, Oxford
Profession
Teacher
Website
DUP website
Nelson McCausland (right), Orange Parade, Belfast, 12 July 2011
Nelson McCausland (born 15 August 1951) is a Northern Irish columnist and former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician who was Minister of Culture, Arts and Leisure (2009–2011) and subsequently Minister for Social Development (2011–2014) in the Northern Ireland Executive.
McCausland was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for North Belfast from 2003, until 2017.[2]
^"Member Biiographies". Northern Ireland Assembly. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
^"Belfast North – Northern Ireland Assembly constituency – Election 2017". BBC News. 1 January 1970. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
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alienates, the people of Northern Ireland". Campbell's successor, NelsonMcCausland, also suggested that an alternative name be found. A significant complication...
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original on 5 January 2020. Retrieved 25 April 2020. McCausland, Nelson (13 April 2017). "NelsonMcCausland: A stand-alone Irish Language Act is divisive and...
Dáil Éireann. In September 2019, former Northern Ireland minister NelsonMcCausland, criticised Ireland's reliance on tax-driven schemes for economic...
the Housing Executive was set to be cancelled in 3 months. In June, NelsonMcCausland, the newly instated Minister of Social Development, requested that...
Féin's Martin McGuinness; sports minister NelsonMcCausland, enterprise minister Arlene Foster and justice committee chairman Maurice Morrow. McAreavey's funeral...
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himself was killed by the Provisional IRA, the late Ernest Baird. NelsonMcCausland of the DUP and Gordon Lucy, Director of the Ulster Society are the...
the story of Nurse Kirkpatrick for their program Brave New World. NelsonMcCausland wrote the following in the Belfast Telegraph newspaper, about one...
resignation of deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness in protest over the Renewable Heat Incentive scandal. McGuinness' position was not filled, and thus...
NelsonMcCausland today paid tribute to Sir Roy McNulty". Government for Northern Ireland. 15 September 2011. Retrieved 26 January 2012. "Sir Roy McNulty...
1998–2001, MP for Vauxhall, 2001–2019 Basil McCrea UUP member of the Northern Ireland Assembly NelsonMcCausland DUP member of the Northern Ireland Assembly...
"Peter Robinson announces 'major' DUP reshuffle: Edwin Poots and NelsonMcCausland out". Belfast Telegraph. Archived from the original on 16 February...
needed £7bn investment over the next 30 years. In 2013 the DUP's NelsonMcCausland, then Social Development minister in the Northern Ireland Executive...
meeting addressed by Unionist politicians Peter Robinson, Robert McCartney, and NelsonMcCausland. 30 October: The CIRA claimed responsibility for planting a...
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