Maurice Morrow
The Lord Morrow | |
|---|---|
 Morrow in 2019 | |
| Minister for Communities | |
| In office 12 January 2016 – 25 May 2016 | |
| First Minister | Arlene Foster |
| Preceded by | Mervyn Storey |
| Succeeded by | Paul Givan |
| Minister for Social Development | |
| In office 27 July 2000 – 24 October 2001 | |
| First Minister | David Trimble |
| Preceded by | Nigel Dodds |
| Succeeded by | Nigel Dodds |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 7 June 2006 Life peerage | |
| Member of the Legislative Assembly forFermanagh & South Tyrone | |
| In office 25 June 1998 – 26 January 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency created |
| Succeeded by | Seat abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Maurice George Morrow 27 September 1948 Ballygawley,County Tyrone,Northern Ireland |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Democratic Unionist Party |
| Children | 2 |
Maurice George Morrow, Baron Morrow(born 27 September 1948)[1]is aNorthern Irishunionistpolitician serving as Chairman of theDemocratic Unionist Party(DUP) since 2000. He was made a life peer in June 2006. He was also a councillor onDungannon and South Tyrone Borough Councilrepresenting Dungannon Town.
He was educated atBallygawleyPrimary School, Dungannon Secondary and Dungannon Technical College, following which he pursued a career as anestate agent.His political career began in 1973 when he was elected toFermanagh District Council.[citation needed]He served as a MLA of theNorthern Ireland Assemblyfrom 1998, until losing his seat in 2017. In July 2000 he became Minister for Social Development in theNorthern Ireland Executive,a position held until October 2001, during which time he was credited with implementing policies recognising the needs of the elderly, the farming community and introduced new measures to tacklewelfare fraud.[citation needed]
It was announced on 11 April 2006 that Morrow would be one of the first three members of the DUP to be createdlife peers,[2]giving the party its first representation in theHouse of Lords.He was createdBaron Morrow,of Clogher Valley in the County of Tyrone, on 7 June 2006[3]and was formally introduced to the House of Lords on 27 June.[4]
Personal life
Morrow is married and has two daughters. He maintains an interest in rural development.[citation needed]
Recent history
In 2012 his constituency office inDungannonwas broken into and ransacked. Morrow vowed it would be business as usual despite the burglary.[5][6]
After hearing testimony about children and adults forced to work in brothels, farms and factories, including that of a Romanian woman who had been kidnapped in London and forced to work as a prostitute in Ireland, he put forward a bill to the Northern Ireland Assembly: the Human Trafficking and Exploitation Act, passed in 2015, which made Northern Ireland the first and only place in the UK where the act of buying sex is a crime. The act of selling sex, by contrast, was decriminalised.[7]The law was opposed by campaigners who wished to see the total decriminalisation of sex work.[8]An application for judicial review failed on the death of the campaigner who had proposed it.[9]
The other DUP peers appointed as "working" life peers alongside Morrow in 2006 wereWallace Browne,formerLord Mayorof Belfast, andEileen Paisley,a former vice-president of the DUP and wife of the late Leader of the DUP,Ian Paisley.At the same time, it was announced thatDavid Trimble,formerMPand former leader of theUlster Unionists,was also being appointed as a working life peer.[citation needed]
Voting record
Lord Morrow has voted consistently for educational autonomy of educational institutions (schools).[10]Lord Morrow has also voted against raising the tuition fees.[11]
References
- ^"MLA Details: Lord Morrow of Clogher Valley".Aims.niassembly.gov.uk.Retrieved27 June2016.
- ^"No. 58007".The London Gazette.12 June 2006. p. 8001.
- ^"Gazette Article".www.thegazette.co.uk.Retrieved11 May2021.
- ^Minute Office, House of Lords."House of Lords – Minute".Publications.parliament.uk.Retrieved27 July2016.
- ^Harrison, Claire."The Belfast Telegraph – Business as usual, burgled MLA Maurice Morrow vows".The Belfast Telegraph.The Belfast Telegraph.Retrieved27 August2012.
- ^"Lord Morrow's Dungannon office ransacked".BBC News.28 February 2012.Retrieved27 July2016.
- ^"'I was kidnapped in London and trafficked for sex'".Retrieved19 January2019.
- ^Laura Lee."'Lies, damn lies and TORL statistics'".Laura Lee.Retrieved10 June2015.
- ^"Laura Lee legal battle over prostitution laws formally withdrawn following her death".Retrieved19 January2019.
- ^"TheyWorkForYou Voting Record, Lord Morrow".TheyWorkForYou.Retrieved4 October2016.
- ^"Raising Undergraduate Tuition Fees, Full Debate".TheyWorkForYou.Retrieved4 October2016.
External links
- Maurice Morrow MLA,DUP website
- List of Members,House of Lords
- Notice of Lord Morrow's Introduction,House of Lords – Minute
- Four new unionist peers appointed,BBC News,11 April 2006
- TheyWorkForYou Voting Record,TheyWorkForYouTheyWorkForYou
- 1948 births
- Living people
- Democratic Unionist Party life peers
- Members of the Northern Ireland Forum
- Northern Ireland MLAs 1998–2003
- Northern Ireland MLAs 2003–2007
- Northern Ireland MLAs 2007–2011
- Northern Ireland MLAs 2011–2016
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- Ministers of the Northern Ireland Executive (since 1999)
- Politicians from County Tyrone
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- Members of Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council
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