Scottish Green Party
MSP for Highlands and Islands (Region) 2021 - present day
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29 April 2025 - 02 September 2025
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01 February 2023 - 29 April 2025
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21 May 2021 - 01 July 2024
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29 November 2023 - 18 June 2024
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17 June 2021 - 01 February 2023
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17 June 2021 - 22 June 2021
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MSPs must provide details of their financial interests in the Register of Interests. They make an initial statement on becoming or being returned as an MSP. This is then updated with any changes they provide.
Here is the register for Ariane Burgess. The date of their initial statement was 02 June 2021.
I published a book with Inner Traditions International Ltd, (of 1 Park Row, Rochester, Vermont, 05767, USA), a publishing house. I expect to receive remuneration of up to £500 per annum. This remuneration represents royalties for a book written prior to my election.
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These are the official transcripts of what was said by this MSP in the chamber and at committee meetings. You'll find the topic discussed and how many times this MSP has contributed to the discussion.
Chamber meeting date: 12 November 2025
Ariane Burgess (Highlands and Islands) (Green): "We are at a watershed moment for the climate, not only in Scotland but globally…
Chamber meeting date: 12 November 2025
Ariane Burgess (Highlands and Islands) (Green): "When it comes to buses, the Scottish Greens deliver. By granting under-22s free bus travel, we have seen hundreds of thousands more young people using Scotland’s networks…
Chamber meeting date: 11 November 2025
Ariane Burgess (Highlands and Islands) (Green): "Motivated by the climate-driven increase in wildfires earlier this year, I obtained data through a freedom of information request that showed that out-of-control intentional burning, such as muirburn, was the fourth most common cause of wildfires in Scotland over the past five years. However, the vast majority of wildfires recorded by the Scottish…
Chamber meeting date: 5 November 2025
Ariane Burgess (Highlands and Islands) (Green): "I welcome the cabinet secretary’s response to Michael Matheson and I welcome the increased active travel investment, which was a key achievement of the Scottish Greens during our time in government…
Chamber meeting date: 5 November 2025
Ariane Burgess (Highlands and Islands) (Green): "Land is power, and those who have the land have the power. Nowhere is that more acutely felt than in the Highlands and Islands—the region that I represent—which has some of the most concentrated land ownership in Europe…
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Submitted by: Mark Ruskell, Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party. Date lodged: Monday, November 10, 2025
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Result 81 for, 35 against, 2 abstained, 11 did not vote
MSP voted against
Agreed
Submitted by: Sue Webber, Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party. Date lodged: Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Result 35 for, 83 against, 0 abstained, 11 did not vote
MSP voted against
Disagreed
Submitted by: Richard Lochhead, Moray, Scottish National Party. Date lodged: Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Supported by: Kate Forbes
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Result 62 for, 36 against, 19 abstained, 12 did not vote
MSP voted against
Agreed
Submitted by: Patrick Harvie, Glasgow, Scottish Green Party. Date lodged: Monday, November 10, 2025
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Result 80 for, 36 against, 1 abstained, 12 did not vote
MSP voted against
Agreed
Submitted by: Jim Fairlie, Perthshire South and Kinross-shire, Scottish National Party. Date lodged: Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Supported by: Fiona Hyslop
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Result 65 for, 34 against, 19 abstained, 11 did not vote
MSP voted against
Agreed
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These are the questions that this MSP has asked in Parliament. It also includes any answer to those questions.
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged:12 November 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 26 November 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government, in light of Oceana UK's recently published research into the impact of offshore oil and gas projects on marine life, whether it plans to oppose any proposed new oil and gas developments in Scotland's seas."
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged:11 November 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 25 November 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government, in light of Oceana UK's recently published research into the impact of offshore oil and gas projects on marine life, what steps it is undertaking to ensure that Scotland's Marine Protected Areas network is protected from any future disturbances by new oil and gas developments."
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged:11 November 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 25 November 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics for 2024, which showed an increasing trend of job losses across the fishing industry, and in light of reports of collapsing stocks of Northern Shelf cod and mackerel, how it will ensure that money coming into the sector through the Fishing and Coastal Growth Fund will…
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged:15 October 2025
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 11 November 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the carbon footprint of data centres operating in Scotland, how the outcomes of any such assessments align with its net zero targets, and what measures are in place to ensure that new data centres meet environmental sustainability standards, including in relation to energy efficiency and…
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged:14 October 2025
Current Status: Answered by Jim Fairlie on 11 November 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-41119 by Jim Fairlie on 9 October 2025, which stakeholders were invited and who attended the Wildfire Summit on 14 October 2025."
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged:10 November 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 24 November 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to use the Fishing and Coastal Growth Fund to drive growth and sustainability in coastal communities and the fishing sector, and how it expects the fund will halt or reverse the decline in the number of (a) fishers and (b) fishing vessels, as outlined in the recent Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics for…
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged:10 November 2025
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 13 November 2025
"To ask the First Minister whether the Scottish Government is still on track to restore 250,000 hectares of peatland by 2030."
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged:7 November 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 21 November 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the guidance accompanying the Fireworks and Pyrotechnic Articles (Scotland) Act 2022 stating that it did not "set out any minimum or maximum geographic size or area that can be covered by a firework control zone, or the cumulative area that a local authority may designate as a firework control…
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged:20 October 2025
Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 6 November 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government whether it will consider extending the scope of the Matthews Second Options Exercise pension remedy to include retained firefighters, who received retaining fees, but served at stations not formally designated as retained stations."
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged:20 October 2025
Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 6 November 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made by the Scottish Public Pensions Agency in determining whether retained firefighters serving at non-designated retained stations are eligible under the Matthews Second Options Exercise pension remedy."
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