Scottish Green Party
MSP for Highlands and Islands (Region) 2021 - present day
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29 April 2025 - 02 September 2025
Substitute Member
01 February 2023 - 29 April 2025
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21 May 2021 - 01 July 2024
Scottish Green Party
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: 30 October 2025
Ariane Burgess (Highlands and Islands) (Green): "Although the proposed FLOW-Park is not within the nearby Cromarty Firth freeport, it is clearly being driven by the industrial expansion that freeports enable…
Chamber meeting date: 29 October 2025
Ariane Burgess (Highlands and Islands) (Green): "Forcing people who have fled war, persecution and violence into isolated institutional accommodation will do nothing to improve housing or community relations but everything to help private companies line their pockets with more cash…
Chamber meeting date: 29 October 2025
Ariane Burgess (Highlands and Islands) (Green): "In discussions with the cabinet secretary, I have expressed my doubts about the effectiveness of lotting as the provision is drafted…
Rural Affairs and Islands Committee meeting date: 29 October 2025
Ariane Burgess: "Constituents have raised a broader concern with me, which is that there is a sense that there has been a bit of tinkering around the edges of existing schemes rather than the transformational change that was promised in the vision for agriculture…
Rural Affairs and Islands Committee meeting date: 29 October 2025
Ariane Burgess: "Josh, I want to come back to your point about the wording of “environmental use” and what people have said in general. You may not be across it, but the Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill is going through the Parliament…
Find out how Ariane Burgess has voted recently.
Submitted by: Shona Robison, Dundee City East, Scottish National Party. Date lodged: Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Thursday, October 30, 2025
Result 70 for, 31 against, 11 abstained, 17 did not vote
MSP voted for
Agreed
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Result 21 for, 91 against, 0 abstained, 17 did not vote
MSP voted against
Disagreed
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Result 43 for, 70 against, 0 abstained, 16 did not vote
MSP voted against
Disagreed
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Result 85 for, 27 against, 0 abstained, 17 did not vote
MSP voted for
Agreed
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Result 24 for, 89 against, 0 abstained, 16 did not vote
MSP voted for
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:15 October 2025
Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 30 October 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government what action it has taken in relation to the reported 75,000 farmed salmon escaping at the Mowi-owned Gorsten salmon farm, at Loch Linnhe, during recent Storm Amy."
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged:13 October 2025
Current Status: Answered by Jim Fairlie on 30 October 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-41119 by Jim Fairlie on 9 October 2025, regarding the delaying of the implementation of the muirburn provisions under the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Act 2024 until the start of the next muirburn season in Autumn 2026, for what reason it considers that its…
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged:13 October 2025
Current Status: Answered by Jim Fairlie on 30 October 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-41119 by Jim Fairlie on 9 October 2025, regarding the delaying of the implementation of the muirburn provisions under the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Act 2024 until the start of the next muirburn season in autumn 2026, whether it remains committed to (a) the aims…
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged:13 October 2025
Current Status: Answered by Jim Fairlie on 30 October 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to instruct NatureScot to produce reports on any impact of the wildfires reportedly caused by out of control muirburn that occurred in 2025, including those on the Tinto Hills SSSI, North Bute Oakwoods SSSI, Muir of Dinnet NNR and Culblean Hill in the Cairngorms National Park on 9 October."
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged:13 October 2025
Current Status: Answered by Jim Fairlie on 29 October 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government, following its decision to further delay the implementation of the revised muirburn licensing scheme, what assessment it has made of any potential impact of public exposure to fire-related fine particulate matter (PM2…
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged:15 October 2025
Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 28 October 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government whether all data centres are considered national developments under the fourth National Planning Framework, or only those that support the Digital Fibre Network ambition."
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged:15 October 2025
Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 28 October 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government, regarding any implications for its energy strategy, what impact it anticipates that the growth of AI and data centres will have on the (a) energy grid and (b) electricity demand in Scotland; whether it plans to introduce specific planning guidance for energy-intensive developments, such as AI data centres, and what…
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged:15 October 2025
Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 28 October 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government what criteria are used to determine whether a data centre qualifies as a “green data centre” under the fourth National Planning Framework (NPF4), and whether AI-focused data centres are included in the scope of national developments under NPF4"
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged:1 October 2025
Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 24 October 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the potential (a) environmental and (b) economic impact on Scotland of any breakdown of the Gulf Stream and its associated currents, and what action it has carried out to prepare for any such eventuality."
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged:1 October 2025
Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 24 October 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government what advice and recommendations it has received, and from whom, regarding the proposed Nature Conservation Order to protect the Parallel Roads of Lochaber Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) at Achnabobane."
See all of Ariane Burgess's questions submitted in Parliament