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Gordon Lyons
MLA
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Minister for Communities
Assumed office
3 February 2024
First Minister Michelle O'Neill
Preceded by Deirdre Hargey (2022)
Minister for the Economy
In office
6 July 2021 – 27 October 2022
First Minister Paul Givan
Vacant
Preceded by Paul Frew
Succeeded by Conor Murphy (2024)
Minister of Agriculture, Environment, and Rural Affairs
In office
2 February 2021 – 8 March 2021
First Minister Arlene Foster
Preceded by Edwin Poots
Succeeded by Edwin Poots
Junior Minister at the Executive Office
In office
8 March 2021 – 17 June 2021
Serving with Declan Kearney
First Minister Arlene Foster
Preceded by Gary Middleton
Succeeded by Gary Middleton
In office
11 January 2020 – 2 February 2021
Serving with Declan Kearney
First Minister Arlene Foster
Preceded by Alastair Ross
Succeeded by Gary Middleton
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for East Antrim
Assumed office
19 August 2015
Preceded by Sammy Wilson
Member of
Mid and East Antrim Borough Council
In office
22 May 2014 – 19 August 2015
Preceded by Council established
Succeeded by Angela Smyth
Constituency Coast Road
Personal details
Born (1986-03-06) 6 March 1986 (age 38)
Coleraine, Northern Ireland
Nationality British
Political party Democratic Unionist Party
Alma mater Newcastle University

Gordon Lyons (born 6 March 1986) is a Northern Irish unionist politician, serving as Minister for Communities since 2024. He has also served as Director of Elections for the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) since 2021. He was Minister for the Economy in the Northern Ireland Executive from 2021 to 2022, and has been a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for East Antrim since August 2015. He is the DUP's Spokesperson for Finance, Public Service Reform and the Northern Ireland Protocol.

Career

Lyons worked as an assistant to DUP MLA Sammy Wilson for five years. He stood unsuccessfully in East Antrim at the 2011 Northern Ireland Assembly election, and also for the Coast Road area of Larne Borough Council in the local elections held that same day.

At the 2014 local elections, Lyons was elected for the Coast Road area on the new Mid and East Antrim District Council, and in August 2015, he was co-opted to take Wilson's place on the Assembly.

Lyons was re-elected at the 2016 Assembly Election, and was a member of the Economy Committee and Chairman of the Committee for Procedures.

Following his re-election at the 2017 NI Assembly Election, Lyons was appointed by DUP Leader Arlene Foster as the DUP Assembly Group Chief Whip.

When devolution was restored on 11 January 2020, First Minister Arlene Foster appointed Lyons as Junior Minister in the Executive Office.

He served as the Minister of Agriculture, Environment, and Rural Affairs after Edwin Poots stood down temporarily for health reasons.

On 6 July 2021 he became Minister for the Economy after being appointed by the DUP's newly elected Leader Jeffrey Donaldson, taking over from Paul Frew.

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