Independent
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
Member
29 June 2023 - 30 October 2023
Member
09 November 2022 - 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
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08 June 2016 - 16 November 2017
Member
08 June 2016 - 29 September 2016
Member
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]
No registrable interests
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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]
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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: 5 November 2025
3. Ash Regan (Edinburgh Eastern) (Ind): "To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to improve the provision of mental health support for vulnerable women and girls with complex post-traumatic stress disorder and other trauma-related conditions, including where this is the result of commercial sexual exploitation in prostitution. (S6O-05100)"
Chamber meeting date: 30 October 2025
7. Ash Regan (Edinburgh Eastern) (Ind): "To ask the First Minister for what reason the Scottish Government has reportedly abandoned key provisions of the Fireworks and Pyrotechnic Articles (Scotland) Act 2022, including the proposed licensing system, as communities prepare for potential disorder during bonfire night. (S6F-04405)"
Criminal Justice Committee meeting date: 29 October 2025
Ash Regan (Edinburgh Eastern) (Ind): "One of the difficulties for the committee is that research, evidence and a number of studies have been presented to the committee—in writing or through oral evidence sessions—that appear at face value to directly and completely contradict each other…
Chamber meeting date: 28 October 2025
Ash Regan (Edinburgh Eastern) (Ind): "To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the recent sentencing of a grooming gang in Dundee, what urgent action it will take to establish a national task force to identify and dismantle any exploitation networks targeting children and vulnerable adults in Scotland."
Criminal Justice Committee meeting date: 8 October 2025
Ash Regan (Edinburgh Eastern) (Alba): "Thank you, convener, and good morning to the witnesses. Thank you for attending. It often seems that a voice is missing from the debate, and for me, that voice is that of the buyers…
Find out how Ash Regan has voted recently.
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Result 90 for, 28 against, 0 abstained, 11 did not vote
MSP not voted
Agreed
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Result 26 for, 91 against, 0 abstained, 12 did not vote
MSP not voted
Disagreed
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Result 90 for, 28 against, 0 abstained, 11 did not vote
MSP not voted
Agreed
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Result 26 for, 91 against, 0 abstained, 12 did not vote
MSP not voted
Disagreed
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Result 26 for, 91 against, 0 abstained, 12 did not vote
MSP not voted
Disagreed
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:6 November 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 20 November 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of any lessons learned, that may be relevant to Scotland, regarding the Australian Government's approval in 2023 for psychiatrists to prescribe MDMA for post-traumatic stress disorder, and psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression."
Asked by: Ash Regan, Edinburgh Eastern, Independent
Date lodged:6 November 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 20 November 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government, regarding its potential use in Scotland, whether it will assess the reasons for three states in the USA legalising psilocybin for the treatment of major treatment-resistant depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance-use disorders and in end-of-life care, and what lessons can be learned to support its…
Asked by: Ash Regan, Edinburgh Eastern, Independent
Date lodged:6 November 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 20 November 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government, regarding the potential treatment of certain mental health conditions, what its position is on the current scheduling of psilocybin as a class A drug, which means it is illegal to possess, supply or produce it, and whether the current scheduling presents any problems in relation to the NHS conducting clinical trials…
Asked by: Ash Regan, Edinburgh Eastern, Independent
Date lodged:6 November 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 20 November 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government whether it has consulted the National Drugs Mission Clinical Advisory Group regarding its position on the potential impact of the reclassification of psilocybin on the treatment of people in Scotland with substance abuse disorders."
Asked by: Ash Regan, Edinburgh Eastern, Independent
Date lodged:6 November 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 20 November 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the work undertaken by the NHS Research Scotland Mental Health Network, sponsored by Compass Pathways, in relation to a trial that commenced in Edinburgh in 2024 as part of a Scottish phase of a worldwide clinical study into the safety and effectiveness of an investigational…
Asked by: Ash Regan, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party
Date lodged:9 October 2025
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 5 November 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the UK Government regarding what progress has been made in assigning a share of VAT revenues raised in Scotland to the Scottish Parliament, in light of the provisions set aside at section16 of the Scotland Act 2016 to allow this."
Asked by: Ash Regan, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party
Date lodged:9 October 2025
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 5 November 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government, in light of reports that a number of local authorities are considering increases of around 10% to council tax in 2026-27, whether it will fund a council tax freeze or a cost of living cap."
Asked by: Ash Regan, Edinburgh Eastern, Independent
Date lodged:15 October 2025
Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 4 November 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government what information it has regarding who has the ownership of the Musselburgh seawall; what responsibility Scottish Power has under the Musselburgh Agreement regarding it carrying out any repairs required to the wall; what its response is to concerns that Scottish Power might ask for public funds to be allocated to carry…
Asked by: Ash Regan, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party
Date lodged:9 October 2025
Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 4 November 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government whether it will put in place funding to complete the roll-out of free school meals to all primary school children."
Asked by: Ash Regan, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party
Date lodged:9 October 2025
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 4 November 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government how many GPs there are, and what the recruitment target is for additional GPs in each of the next five years."