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MSP for Edinburgh Eastern (Constituency) 2025 - present day
Alba Party
Former MSP for Edinburgh Eastern (Constituency) 2023 - 2025
Scottish National Party
Former MSP for Edinburgh Eastern (Constituency) 2016 - 2023
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05 December 2024 - 30 September 2025
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29 June 2023 - 30 October 2023
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09 November 2022 - 30 October 2023
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18 April 2023 - 14 July 2023
Substitute Member
19 May 2021 - 27 October 2022
Scottish Government
28 June 2018 - 19 May 2021
Scottish Government
21 November 2017 - 28 June 2018
Deputy Convener
29 September 2016 - 28 June 2018
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14 June 2016 - 23 April 2018
Scottish Government
16 November 2017 - 21 November 2017
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08 June 2016 - 16 November 2017
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08 June 2016 - 29 September 2016
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29 June 2016 - 06 September 2016
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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 Ash Regan. The date of their initial statement was 01 June 2021.
On 11 July 2023, I received £600 for writing three columns for the Reach Plc, Sunday Mail (of One Canada Square Canary Wharf, London E14 5AP). I undertook this work in February and March 2023 and it took me six hours to prepare the articles. [Registered 11 September 2023]
No registrable interests
From 4 to 6 September 2023, I attended and gave a talk at the Promoting International Cooperation, Cultural Understanding & Peace Conference in Skopje, North Macedonia. The costs of the travel and accommodation amounted to £825.50 and were met, along with hospitality costs, by the Institute of Cultural Diplomacy (an international, not-for-profit, non-governmental organization with headquarters in the USA and in Germany; ICD House of Arts & Culture, Soltauer Str. 18-22, 13509 Berlin, Germany). [Registered 7 November 2023]
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In March 2024 I received a one-off payment of £175 from Ethel Writes Ltd (editors) of the book "The women who wouldn't wheest" for my contribution to the book. [Registered 5 August 2024]
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: 29 January 2026
Ash Regan (Edinburgh Eastern) (Ind): "Through my amendment, I am asking the Parliament for something that should not be controversial: time—having the time to do our jobs properly by respecting the gravity of our task and acknowledging the reality of those whose lives are central to the debate.Having been involved in the member’s bill process after progressing many Government bills, I…
Chamber meeting date: 29 January 2026
Ash Regan (Edinburgh Eastern) (Ind): "Through my amendment, I am asking the Parliament for something that should not be controversial: time—having the time to do our jobs properly by respecting the gravity of our task and acknowledging the reality of those whose lives are central to the debate.Having been involved in the member’s bill process after progressing many Government bills, I…
Chamber meeting date: 21 January 2026
Ash Regan (Edinburgh Eastern) (Ind): "The human rights of women and girls in Scotland are not complex. Sex-based risk is real…
Chamber meeting date: 21 January 2026
Ash Regan (Edinburgh Eastern) (Ind): "The human rights of women and girls in Scotland are not complex. Sex-based risk is real…
Chamber meeting date: 15 January 2026
Ash Regan (Edinburgh Eastern) (Ind): "The latest Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service figures show a 43 per cent post-Covid rise in under-16s who are reported for rape and sexual assault. There is a crisis of violence against women and girls in Scotland…
Find out how Ash Regan has voted recently.
Motion ref. S6M-20611.1
Submitted by: Ash Regan, Edinburgh Eastern, Independent. Date lodged: Thursday, January 29, 2026
Supported by: Jeremy Balfour, Sharon Dowey, Fergus Ewing, Dr Pam Gosal MBE, Rachael Hamilton, Liam Kerr, Stephen Kerr, Douglas Ross, Graham Simpson, Michelle Thomson, Tess White
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Thursday, January 29, 2026
Result 28 for, 83 against, 1 abstained, 17 did not vote
MSP voted for
Disagreed
Motion ref. S6M-20549
Submitted by: Gillian Martin, Aberdeenshire East, Scottish National Party. Date lodged: Monday, January 26, 2026
Supported by: Jim Fairlie, Mairi Gougeon
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Thursday, January 29, 2026
Result 90 for, 26 against, 0 abstained, 13 did not vote
MSP voted for
Agreed
Motion ref. S6M-20527
Submitted by: Mark Ruskell, Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party. Date lodged: Thursday, January 22, 2026
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Thursday, January 29, 2026
Result 69 for, 27 against, 19 abstained, 14 did not vote
MSP not voted
Agreed
Find out what motions Ash Regan has submitted recently.
These are the questions that this MSP has asked in Parliament. It also includes any answer to those questions.
Asked by: Ash Regan, Edinburgh Eastern, Independent
Date lodged: 28 January 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 11 February 2026
"To ask the Scottish Government, in light of testimony from survivors of grooming gangs, frontline service organisations and justice agencies that child sexual exploitation (CSE) and grooming are core pathways through which vulnerable children are drawn into the commercial sexual exploitation of prostitution, both in childhood and later in…
Asked by: Ash Regan, Edinburgh Eastern, Independent
Date lodged: 13 January 2026
Current Status: Answered by Ben Macpherson on 28 January 2026
"To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure that university funding is meaningfully linked to best practice in healthy workplaces, specifically in relation to workload management and other drivers of work-related stress."
Asked by: Ash Regan, Edinburgh Eastern, Independent
Date lodged: 13 January 2026
Current Status: Answered by Ben Macpherson on 28 January 2026
"To ask the Scottish Government, further to the announcement of the review into a sustainable future funding model for universities, what support or assurances it will provide to any university staff who have lost their jobs or are currently at risk of redundancy."
Asked by: Ash Regan, Edinburgh Eastern, Independent
Date lodged: 13 January 2026
Current Status: Answered by Ben Macpherson on 28 January 2026
"To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to ensure that higher education better meets the needs of Scotland and of future generations."
Asked by: Ash Regan, Edinburgh Eastern, Independent
Date lodged: 13 January 2026
Current Status: Answered by Ben Macpherson on 28 January 2026
"To ask the Scottish Government what information it can provide regarding the timelines and delivery of the university sustainability review."
Asked by: Ash Regan, Edinburgh Eastern, Independent
Date lodged: 13 January 2026
Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 21 January 2026
"To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with Edinburgh City Council to ensure that staff are entitled to the proposed additional June 2026 public holiday announced by the First Minister to mark Scotland’s participation in the 2026 Men’s World Cup."
Asked by: Ash Regan, Edinburgh Eastern, Independent
Date lodged: 13 January 2026
Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 21 January 2026
"To ask the Scottish Government whether school staff, including teachers, will be entitled to the proposed additional June 2026 public holiday announced by the First Minister to mark Scotland’s participation in the 2026 Men’s World Cup."
Asked by: Ash Regan, Edinburgh Eastern, Independent
Date lodged: 13 January 2026
Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 21 January 2026
"To ask the Scottish Government whether NHS Scotland staff will be entitled to the proposed additional June 2026 public holiday announced by the First Minister to mark Scotland’s participation in the 2026 Men’s World Cup."
Asked by: Ash Regan, Edinburgh Eastern, Independent
Date lodged: 6 January 2026
Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 20 January 2026
"To ask the Scottish Government what estimate it has made of the (a) revenue and (b) capital cost of extending universal free school meal entitlement to all primary school children."
Asked by: Ash Regan, Edinburgh Eastern, Independent
Date lodged: 5 January 2026
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 19 January 2026
"To ask the Scottish Government, further to its consultation, which was launched on 28 August 2025 and concluded on 17 October 2025, with the Criminal Justice Committee taking initial evidence from the Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Home Affairs on 24 September 2025, what the reasons are for the reported delay in the laying of the proposed Hate…