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Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs)

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Ash Regan

Alba Party

MSP for Edinburgh Eastern (Constituency) 2023 - present day

Scottish National Party

Former MSP for Edinburgh Eastern (Constituency) 2016 - 2023

About Ash Regan

Contact details

Contact online

X (previously known as Twitter): @AshReganALBA

Facebook: Ash's facebook

Contact at the Scottish Parliament

The Scottish Parliament
Edinburgh
EH99 1SP

Phone: 0131 348 5922
Text relay calls welcome.

Contact at local office

18 Niddrie Mains Road
Edinburgh
EH16 4GB

Phone: 0131 661 4888
Text relay calls welcome.

Committees

Cross-party groups

Ash is a member of 1 cross-party group

Cross-Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on Commercial Sexual Exploitation

Member

Parliamentary and Government Roles

Ash does not have any parliamentary or government roles

Party Roles

Ash does not have any party roles

Previous roles

Ash has had 12 previous roles

Previous roles in cross-party groups are not included in this list.

09 November 2022 - 30 October 2023

Net Zero Energy and Transport Committee

Member

29 June 2023 - 30 October 2023

Economy and Fair Work Committee

Member

18 April 2023 - 14 July 2023

COVID19 Recovery Committee

Substitute Member

19 May 2021 - 27 October 2022

Minister for Community Safety

Scottish Government

28 June 2018 - 19 May 2021

Minister for Community Safety

Scottish Government

21 November 2017 - 28 June 2018

Health and Sport Committee

Deputy Convener

29 September 2016 - 28 June 2018

Finance and Constitution Committee

Member

14 June 2016 - 23 April 2018

Parliamentary Liaison Officer to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Tourism and External Affairs

Scottish Government

16 November 2017 - 21 November 2017

Health and Sport Committee

Member

08 June 2016 - 16 November 2017

Economy Jobs and Fair Work Committee

Member

08 June 2016 - 29 September 2016

Finance Committee

Member

29 June 2016 - 06 September 2016

European and External Relations Committee

Member

Register of interests

Ash's register of interests

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.

Remuneration and related undertaking

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]

Gifts

No registrable interests

Overseas visits

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]

Controlled transactions

No registrable interests

Heritable property

No registrable interests

Interest in shares

No registrable interests

Voluntary

No registrable interests

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]

Recent Activity

What was said

What Ash Regan has said in Parliament

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: 4 December 2024

Violence against Women and Girls

Ash Regan (Edinburgh Eastern) (Alba): "The Scottish Government’s stated position in the equally safe strategy is that prostitution is violence against women…

Chamber meeting date: 4 December 2024

Budget 2025-26

Ash Regan (Edinburgh Eastern) (Alba): "I will start by sounding a cautious note of consensus with the Government. I believe that this budget is a step in the right direction…

Chamber meeting date: 27 November 2024

Rural Food Production (Economic Activity)

5. Ash Regan (Edinburgh Eastern) (Alba): "To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to ensure that critical rural food production economic activity is viable, sustainable and attractive to the next generation of farmers, crofters and fishers. (S6O-04009)"

Chamber meeting date: 21 November 2024

Petroineos Grangemouth Refinery

Ash Regan (Edinburgh Eastern) (Alba): "It is beginning to look as though the First Minister has accepted defeat with regard to Scotland’s ever becoming an independent country, because, under his watch, Scotland will become the only top-25 oil-producing nation that has no refining capacity…

Chamber meeting date: 20 November 2024

National Insurance Increase (Impact on Public Services)

Ash Regan (Edinburgh Eastern) (Alba): "“Make work pay,” Labour says while making employing people cost much more…

Votes

How Ash Regan has voted in Parliament

Find out how Ash Regan has voted recently.

Motion ref. S6 SP Bill 35 Amendment 23

Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Result 55 for, 59 against, 0 abstained, 15 did not vote

MSP not voted

Vote Defeated

Motion ref. S6 SP Bill 35 Amendment 1

Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Result 89 for, 26 against, 0 abstained, 14 did not vote

MSP voted for

Vote Passed

Motion ref. S6M-15683

Social Security (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill

Submitted by: Shirley-Anne Somerville, Dunfermline, Scottish National Party. Date lodged: Monday, December 2, 2024

Supported by: Paul McLennan, Kaukab Stewart
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Result 117 for, 0 against, 0 abstained, 12 did not vote

MSP voted for

Vote Passed

Motion ref. S6 SP Bill 35 Amendment 5

Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Result 27 for, 88 against, 0 abstained, 14 did not vote

MSP voted against

Vote Defeated

Motion ref. S6 SP Bill 35 Amendment 21

Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Result 51 for, 60 against, 7 abstained, 11 did not vote

MSP voted against

Vote Defeated

Motions

Questions

Questions Ash Regan has asked

These are the questions that this MSP has asked in Parliament. It also includes any answer to those questions.

Question ref. S6O-04114

Asked by: Regan, Ash, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party, Date Lodged: 4 December 2024

"To ask the Scottish Government whether it has a policy of a presumption against new oil and gas licences."

Taken in the Chamber on 12 December 2024

Question ref. S6W-31476

Asked by: Regan, Ash, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party, Date Lodged: 19 November 2024

"To ask the Scottish Government what it estimates the additional cost will be to each NHS board in Scotland as a result of the UK Government’s Budget decision to increase employer national insurance contributions."

Answered by Shona Robison on 25 November 2024

Question ref. S6W-31475

Asked by: Regan, Ash, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party, Date Lodged: 19 November 2024

"To ask the Scottish Government what it estimates the additional cost will be to local authorities in Scotland as a result of the UK Government’s Budget decision to increase employer national insurance contributions."

Answered by Shona Robison on 25 November 2024

Question ref. S6W-31478

Asked by: Regan, Ash, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party, Date Lodged: 19 November 2024

"To ask the Scottish Government what it estimates the additional cost will be to the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service as a result of the UK Government’s Budget decision to increase employer national insurance contributions."

Answered by Shona Robison on 25 November 2024

Question ref. S6W-31477

Asked by: Regan, Ash, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party, Date Lodged: 19 November 2024

"To ask the Scottish Government what it estimates the additional cost will be to Police Scotland as a result of the UK Government’s Budget decision to increase employer national insurance contributions."

Answered by Shona Robison on 25 November 2024

Question ref. S6O-04009

Asked by: Regan, Ash, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party, Date Lodged: 20 November 2024

"To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to ensure that critical rural food production economic activity is viable, sustainable and attractive to the next generation of farmers, crofters and fishers."

Taken in the Chamber on 27 November 2024

Question ref. S6W-28936

Asked by: Regan, Ash, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party, Date Lodged: 6 August 2024

"To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the recently reported decision by the UK Government to retract the £800 million of support for the University of Edinburgh exascale supercomputer, and whether it has had any recent discussions with the UK Government regarding this matter."

Answered by Richard Lochhead on 20 November 2024

Question ref. S6W-30402

Asked by: Regan, Ash, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party, Date Lodged: 3 October 2024

"To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its position that prostitution is a form of violence against women and girls, as stated in its Equally Safe strategy, what work it is doing to eradicate violence against women and girls in every sector of society."

Answered by Kaukab Stewart on 29 October 2024

Question ref. S6W-30528

Asked by: Regan, Ash, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party, Date Lodged: 9 October 2024

"To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the report, Prostitution and violence against women and girls - Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, Reem Alsalem, whether it will commit to supporting the Nordic Model in the current parliamentary session, in order to tackle violence against…

Answered by Siobhian Brown on 22 October 2024

Question ref. S6W-30225

Asked by: Regan, Ash, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party, Date Lodged: 27 September 2024

"To ask the Scottish Government, in light of reported concerns regarding the potential negative impact on the mental health of deer stalkers required to cull pregnant female deer, whether it has considered alternative measures to extending the female deer season until 31 March, and what its position is on whether the extension is appropriate, in…

Answered by Jim Fairlie on 8 October 2024

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