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Edwin Poots MLA (born 27 April 1965) is a Northern Irish politician. He is a member of the Democratic Unionist Party and is a Member of the Legislative Assembly for Lagan Valley. ==Career== Poots was educated at the Wallace High School, Lisburn, and then studied at Greenmount Agricultural College. He is married with four children. He is a farmer and previously served on Lisburn City Council. His father, Charles Poots was also a DUP politician, having stood in the 1969 Northern Ireland General Election for the Protestant Unionist Party. Poots was a member of the Environment Committee and chaired the Committee of the Centre (Committee for the Office of the First and Deputy First Minister) in the 1998-2003 Assembly. On 8 May 2007, he was appointed Minister of Culture, Arts and Leisure in the Northern Ireland Executive, a post he held until 9 June 2008, when a cabinet re-shuffle saw this post being reassigned to Gregory Campbell. It was speculated that he was removed as Minister of Culture due to his support of the Maze stadium proposals.〔(Poots dropped as culture minister ) BBC.〕 He was subsequently made Deputy Mayor of Lisburn on 23 June 2008.〔(New Mayor and Deputy Mayor ) Lisburn City Council.〕 On 1 July 2009, Poots was returned to the Executive as Minister of the Environment, in charge of the Department of the Environment. In May 2011, he was appointed as Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety.〔(DUP's Edwin Poots to be health minister ) BBC.〕 On 23 September 2014, Poots was replaced by Jim Wells as Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Peter Robinson announces 'major' DUP reshuffle: Edwin Poots and Nelson McCausland out )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edwin Poots」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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