Fraser of Allander Institute – April 7, 2020 As the full lockdown in Scotland begins its third week, we are all getting used to the restrictions on social distancing, and, for those of us lucky enough to be working from home, new ways of working. The focus of course remains as it should on the public health […]
Please see the below letter sent from the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport copied to all MSPs: “Revised PPE guidance In response to the emerging epidemiology and evidence, urgent work has been under way to review the existing UK-wide Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) guidance and today the revised guidance has been published. The guidance […]
🔥 🏠Mossmorran Petrochemical Plant must be held to account. Have you or yours been impacted by the ongoing incidents? I am asking the Government to take action – see below 👇
I recently asked SPICe (The Scottish Parliament Information Centre) for a briefing on what the issues are and where the powers sit around transgender issues and the gender recognition act reforms. Below is a factual brief prepared by SPICe that looks at the issue objectively – there is a lot of misinformation around this issue […]
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I asked Nicola Sturgeon at First Minister’s Questions today what has happened to the promised renewable jobs for Fife. I drew attention to the example of BiFab, and other yards sitting empty across the country and asked the FM about the Scottish Government’s Low Carbon Economic Strategy for Scotland published in 2010 which stated that […]
This week I raised a question with the Cabinet Secretary for Justice about what action the government is taking to address staffing shortages in our prisons. See what he had to say in response below. I also spoke recently in the Parliament about the subject, and you can see that debate below as well: Debate […]
I was pleased to be able to secure a Member’s debate in order to discuss the findings of the Menu for Change report: Found Wanting. It is a disgrace that in 21st century Scotland people are living with food insecurity. This is simply not acceptable and more needs to be done to tackle this. There […]