Today Tom Greatrex, Scottish Labour’s Shadow Energy Minister and MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West, commented on the UK Governments support for Labour plans to devolve the remaining parts of the shale gas framework, to the Scottish Government. Mr Greatrex stated that the Westminster Government have belatedly conceded to Scottish Labour amendments which will see […]
A Fife MSP has called for a national housing strategy to be put in place with the objective to tackle what he calls the ‘growing housing crisis’ in Scotland. Speaking in the Scottish Parliament Alex Rowley highlighted the current housing position in Scotland stating; “There are over 150,000 people on the council waiting lists in […]
This week I spoke in the debate which proceeded the First Ministers statement on the Scottish Independence Referendum result and set out my belief that we must unite and work together to tackle the real issues that my constituents and people across Scotland discussed on the door step every day of the independence campaign. I […]
This week in the Scottish Governments debate on Scotland’s future I set out a vision for Scotland which put fairness and social Justice first. A vision which is about listening to the needs of our people and responding to them with effective policy to bring about real change. My vision is a Labour vision based […]
This week I spoke in the Scottish Government debate on welfare reform and made the argument that we need to have a clear strategy aimed at tackling poverty and tackling the causes of poverty. I believe we must be more ambitious than simply arguing for improvements in welfare benefits; we must strive to give every […]
Scottish Labour’s pensions spokesperson, Gregg McClymont MP, today commented on further warnings from the Institute of Faculty of Actuaries as to the risks that Independence will bring to the pensions of people in Scotland. Mr McClymont highlighted some of the arguments which Gordon Brown MP also made to an audience at Glasgow university on Tuesday night where he outlined pensions as one of the […]