Ulster Unionist MLA Basil McCrea has said that the PSNI do not have the financial resources to pay for cold cases within its budget.

Ulster Unionist Education spokesperson Basil McCrea has welcomed the decision by the Planning Service to speed up the planning process for school build projects at Tor Bank Special School and Lagan College.

Ulster Unionist Policing Board member Basil McCrea MLA has said the PSNI will have to look at alternative strategies following the announcement that the PSNI will have to stop using 'stop and search' powers following the recent European Court ruling.

Ulster Unionist Education spokesperson Basil McCrea has criticised the Minister for Education for what he has described as her failure to carry out her Ministerial duty.

Ulster Unionist Policing Board member Basil McCrea has said that it is time to ';get real'; over Northern Ireland's security needs, after the Policing Board voted 8-7 against PSNI proposals for an armed civilian force.

Ulster Unionist Education spokesperson Basil McCrea has responded angrily to a statement by the Minister Caitriona Ruane in which she seems to forget that the muddle within the education sector rests with her.

The Ulster Unionist Party has described as 'wholly inadequate' the Early Years Strategy brought forward to the Education Committee today saying it has failed to grasp the importance of early prevention to educational underachievement.

Ulster Unionist MLA for Lagan Valley, Basil McCrea, has labelled as ';deplorable'; the delay around the proposed John Lewis development at Sprucefield.

Ulster Unionist MLA Basil McCrea has hit out at Education Minister Caitriona Ruane for what he has described as the 'continued muddle and mess within our education sector.'

Ulster Unionist MLA Basil McCrea, member of the Policing Board, has welcomed the Chief Constable's decision to temporarily retain more than 200 officers from the 371-strong PSNI full-time reserve, but has said that ';they cannot remain indefinitely in limbo';.