Alba Party
MSP for Edinburgh Eastern (Constituency) 2023 - present day
Scottish National Party
Former MSP for Edinburgh Eastern (Constituency) 2016 - 2023
Email: [email protected]
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Member
Previous roles in cross-party groups are not included in this list.
09 November 2022 - 30 October 2023
Member
29 June 2023 - 30 October 2023
Member
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
Member
14 June 2016 - 23 April 2018
Scottish Government
16 November 2017 - 21 November 2017
Member
08 June 2016 - 16 November 2017
Member
08 June 2016 - 29 September 2016
Member
29 June 2016 - 06 September 2016
Member
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: 3 June 2025
Ash Regan (Edinburgh Eastern) (Alba): "I commend Rhoda Grant for lodging this important motion for debate and for her long-standing commitment to work in this area. I also commend the cross-party group on commercial sexual exploitation for the excellent work that it has done recently…
Chamber meeting date: 29 May 2025
Ash Regan (Edinburgh Eastern) (Alba): "The fear and toxicity that have been referred to are, of course, fuelled by hyperbolic assertions by those advocacy groups, which are amplified by people in positions of influence…
Chamber meeting date: 28 May 2025
Ash Regan: "That sounds as if the Scottish ministers are seeking for those powers to be granted. If that is the case, some questions need to be answered. Before the ScotWind auction was delayed, the maximum cap was set at just £75…
Chamber meeting date: 27 May 2025
Ash Regan (Edinburgh Eastern) (Alba): "Experienced educators, such as the retired Edinburgh headteacher whom I met this morning, track the root cause of escalating violence in schools to the erosion of clear and unambiguous values-based behavioural policies that are based on consequences…
Chamber meeting date: 22 May 2025
Ash Regan (Edinburgh Eastern) (Alba): "Last week, I urged the Cabinet Secretary for Justice to revoke the unlawful gender self-identification policy that has put male offenders, including murderers and sexual torturers, in women’s prisons for more than a decade…
Find out how Ash Regan has voted recently.
Submitted by: Kate Forbes, Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch, Scottish National Party. Date lodged: Monday, June 2, 2025
Supported by: Tom Arthur, Richard Lochhead
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Result 84 for, 28 against, 0 abstained, 16 did not vote
MSP voted for
Vote Passed
Submitted by: Daniel Johnson, Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour. Date lodged: Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Result 55 for, 57 against, 0 abstained, 16 did not vote
MSP voted for
Vote Defeated
Submitted by: Murdo Fraser, Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party. Date lodged: Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Result 28 for, 83 against, 0 abstained, 17 did not vote
MSP voted against
Vote Defeated
Submitted by: Dr Sandesh Gulhane, Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party. Date lodged: Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Result 49 for, 66 against, 0 abstained, 13 did not vote
MSP voted against
Vote Defeated
Submitted by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats. Date lodged: Thursday, May 22, 2025
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Result 96 for, 18 against, 0 abstained, 14 did not vote
MSP not voted
Vote Passed
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: Regan, Ash, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party, Date Lodged: 28 May 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it undertook that resulted in it determining that CalMac should be directly awarded the Clyde and Hebrides Ferry Services contract without an open tender process, in light of it stating that directly awarding the contract for the Small Vessel Replacement Programme to Ferguson Marine would present a…
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 5 June 2025
Asked by: Regan, Ash, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party, Date Lodged: 4 June 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government, in light of recent reports regarding the Barnett formula, and its ministers stating a preference for full fiscal autonomy, what discussions it has had with the UK Government in relation to replacing the Barnett formula…
Taken in the Chamber on 11 June 2025
Asked by: Regan, Ash, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party, Date Lodged: 2 June 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government, regarding its policies and guidance for public bodies, what its definition of "woman" is."
Answer expected on 16 June 2025
Asked by: Regan, Ash, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party, Date Lodged: 2 June 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government whether it can create a strategic Bitcoin reserve, and, if so, whether it will consider the creation of such a reserve."
Answer expected on 16 June 2025
Asked by: Regan, Ash, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party, Date Lodged: 2 June 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government, as part of its work to further the case for Scottish independence, and in light of its series of papers, Building a New Scotland, which aimed to form a prospectus for an independent Scotland, what its policy is for what the weekly state pension entitlement would be in an independent Scotland."
Answer expected on 16 June 2025
Asked by: Regan, Ash, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party, Date Lodged: 30 May 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government what policy initiatives it plans to enact that are aimed at supporting female entrepreneurs."
Answer expected on 13 June 2025
Asked by: Regan, Ash, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party, Date Lodged: 30 May 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government whether it will consider progressing a Dundee Northern Relief Road to reduce conflict between strategic and local traffic in Dundee, and to improve the connectivity of Aberdeen to the Central Belt, including Edinburgh, and what it estimates the cost of such a project is."
Answer expected on 13 June 2025
Asked by: Regan, Ash, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party, Date Lodged: 30 May 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government, as part of any action to reduce any sex-related pay inequality, whether it will consider changes to tax policy to increase the pay thresholds for the intermediate and higher rate tax bands for women returning to work after maternity leave."
Answer expected on 13 June 2025
Asked by: Regan, Ash, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party, Date Lodged: 29 May 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it estimates it would need to provide to local authorities to cover the cost of implementing a national council tax freeze in 2026-27."
Answer expected on 12 June 2025
Asked by: Regan, Ash, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party, Date Lodged: 29 May 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government what action it has taken in relation to issuing bonds to finance key infrastructure in Scotland since it announced its intention to do so in October 2023."
Answer expected on 12 June 2025