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: 18 November 2025
Ariane Burgess (Highlands and Islands) (Green): "As a representative of hundreds of coastal communities across the Highlands and Islands, I whole-heartedly share the Scottish Government’s condemnation of the allocation that Scotland has received through the UK fishing and coastal growth fund…
Chamber meeting date: 13 November 2025
6. Ariane Burgess (Highlands and Islands) (Green): "To ask the First Minister whether the Scottish Government is still on track to restore 250,000 hectares of peatland by 2030. (S6F-04446)"
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…
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Submitted by: Jenny Gilruth, Mid Fife and Glenrothes, Scottish National Party. Date lodged: Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Supported by: Natalie Don-Innes, Ben Macpherson
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Result 64 for, 53 against, 1 abstained, 11 did not vote
MSP voted for
Agreed
Submitted by: Daniel Johnson, Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour. Date lodged: Monday, November 17, 2025
Supported by: Pam Duncan-Glancy
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Result 61 for, 57 against, 0 abstained, 11 did not vote
MSP voted for
Agreed
Submitted by: Miles Briggs, Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party. Date lodged: Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Result 53 for, 63 against, 0 abstained, 13 did not vote
MSP voted against
Disagreed
Submitted by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, Glasgow, Scottish Labour. Date lodged: Monday, November 17, 2025
Supported by: Paul Sweeney, Martin Whitfield
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Result 63 for, 54 against, 1 abstained, 11 did not vote
MSP voted for
Agreed
Submitted by: Ben Macpherson, Edinburgh Northern and Leith, Scottish National Party. Date lodged: Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Supported by: Natalie Don-Innes, Kate Forbes, Jenny Gilruth
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Result 58 for, 60 against, 0 abstained, 11 did not vote
MSP voted against
Disagreed
Find out what motions Ariane Burgess has submitted recently.
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:19 November 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 4 December 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government how many times the Deer Code has been used to inform action of the ground by NatureScot to reduce deer (a) numbers and (b) damage."
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged:19 November 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 4 December 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government whether NatureScot will carry out a review of the current Deer Code and how effective its implementation has been by the agency before a new Deer Code is produced, as proposed by part 4 of the Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill."
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged:19 November 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 4 December 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government how many completed peatland restoration projects funded by the Peatland Action Fund have subsequently been damaged by deer populations, and what steps have been taken by NatureScot to prevent such damage from re-occurring."
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged:19 November 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 4 December 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government how the Deer Code was used to inform action under section 8 of the Deer (Scotland) Act 1996 at Loch Choire Estate in Sutherland."
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged:19 November 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 4 December 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government what the financial cost has been of damage by deer populations to areas of peatlands that have been restored under the Peatland Action Fund."
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged:18 November 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 3 December 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government what policy it plans to implement to classify battery storage as energy generation."
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged:18 November 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 3 December 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to review the level of grant support available for solar thermal installations, with a view to bringing it in line with that for solar photovoltaic (PV) systems."
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged:18 November 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 3 December 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of any impact of solar thermal installations on a building's Energy Performance Certificate (EPC)."
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged:18 November 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 3 December 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government for what reason solar thermal installations do not currently receive the same level of grant support as solar photovoltaic (PV) systems."
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged:18 November 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 3 December 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government how the revised Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) methodology will recognise the contribution of solar thermal installations to energy efficiency."
See all of Ariane Burgess's questions submitted in Parliament