ROBINSON, Peter

Member for Belfast East since 1979. Committees: Member, Maritime Group; Member, British-American Parliamentary Group; Member, British-Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. Political career: Member, Northern Ireland Assembly since 1998; Member, Northern Ireland Forum 1996-98; Member, Northern Ireland Assembly 1982-86 (and Chair, Environmental Committee); Mayor, Castlereagh Borough Council 1985; Deputy Leader, Democratic Unionist Party 1979; Deputy Mayor, Castlereagh Borough Council 1978; elected to Castlereagh Borough Council 1977; General Secretary, Ulster Democratic Unionist Party 1975-79; Secretary, Ulster Democratic Unionist Party Central Executive Committee 1974-77. Special political interests: Housing and urban renewal. Profession/Trade: Director, estate agency and publishing company. Education: Annadale Grammar School; Castlereagh College of Further Education. Languages spoken: French. Author of: Ulster - The Prey and Give Me Liberty; The Union Under Fire (1995); Sinn Fein - A Case for Proscription (1993); Hands off the UDR (1990); Their Cry was no Surrender (1986); Ulster in Peril (1984); Carson - Man of Action (1984); It-s Londonderry (1984); A War to be Won (1983); Self-Inflicted (1981); Ulster the Facts (1981); Savagery and Suffering (1975); Capital Punishment for Capital Crime (1974). b. 29 December 1948. Married with three children.