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Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs)

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Ruth Maguire

Scottish National Party

MSP for Cunninghame South (Constituency) 2016 - present day

About Ruth Maguire

Contact details

Contact online

X (previously known as Twitter): @RBFMaguire

Facebook: Ruth's facebook

Contact at the Scottish Parliament

The Scottish Parliament
Edinburgh
EH99 1SP

Contact at local office

Caledonian House
100 High Street
Irvine
KA12 0AX

Phone: 01294 276730
Text relay calls welcome.

Committees

Cross-party groups

Ruth is a member of 2 cross-party groups

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

Co-Convener

Cross-Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on Nuclear Disarmament

Member

Parliamentary and Government Roles

Ruth does not have any parliamentary or government roles

Party Roles

Ruth does not have any party roles

Previous roles

Ruth has had 14 previous roles

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

09 November 2023 - 29 October 2024

Health Social Care and Sport Committee

Member

18 June 2024 - 20 June 2024

Standards Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Member

13 September 2023 - 17 June 2024

Education Children and Young People Committee

Deputy Convener

31 March 2022 - 16 November 2023

Local Government Housing and Planning Committee

Substitute Member

31 March 2022 - 13 September 2023

Education Children and Young People Committee

Member

18 January 2022 - 31 March 2022

Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee

Member

05 March 2020 - 04 May 2021

Environment Climate Change and Land Reform Committee

Substitute Member

13 September 2018 - 04 May 2021

Equalities and Human Rights Committee

Convener

13 September 2018 - 04 May 2021

conveners group

Member

12 September 2018 - 25 April 2019

Hutchesons Hospital Transfer and Dissolution Scotland Bill Committee

Member

06 September 2018 - 13 September 2018

Equalities and Human Rights Committee

Member

08 June 2016 - 06 September 2018

Social Security Committee

Member

30 March 2017 - 24 May 2018

Education and Skills Committee

Member

06 September 2016 - 30 March 2017

Local Government and Communities Committee

Member

Register of interests

Ruth'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 Ruth Maguire. The date of their initial statement was 03 June 2021.

Remuneration and related undertaking

Until 19 May 2016, when I resigned my position, I was a councillor with North Ayrshire Council (of Cunninghame House, Irvine). I received remuneration of between £15,001 and £20,000 per annum.

Gifts

No registrable interests

Overseas visits

No registrable interests

Controlled transactions

No registrable interests

Heritable property

No registrable interests

Interest in shares

No registrable interests

Voluntary

I am a trustee of the Break the Silence Charity. Break The Silence provide a range of tailored, professional support options for people affected by childhood sexual trauma in East and North Ayrshire. [Registered 13 August 2024]

Recent Activity

What was said

What Ruth Maguire 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: 24 September 2025

Housing (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3

Ruth Maguire (Cunninghame South) (SNP): "I welcome what the cabinet secretary has said about the implementation of part 2 of the Domestic Abuse (Protection) (Scotland) Act 2021. Can she give an indication of when that might happen?"

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee meeting date: 18 September 2025

Scottish Parliament (Elections etc) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2025 [Draft]

Ruth Maguire (Cunninghame South) (SNP): "Good morning, minister. I want to ask you about the timing of the count. In the order, you have not specified a requirement for the count to be done overnight, but you have said that that is your preference…

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee meeting date: 18 September 2025

Cross-Party Group

Ruth Maguire: "I do not object to what is proposed. However, looking at what has happened, I wonder whether it might be a good example for our committee to examine when we look at the operation of cross-party groups and their rules."

Chamber meeting date: 11 September 2025

Best Start Grant and Best Start Foods

4. Ruth Maguire (Cunninghame South) (SNP): "To ask the First Minister, in light of reports of the rising rate of poverty for families with a baby under one and new evidence from Save the Children that increasing best start grant and best start foods payments could significantly reduce the child poverty rate for this priority group, whether it will consider increasing these payments.…

Chamber meeting date: 10 September 2025

Sustainable Farming and Food Production

3. Ruth Maguire (Cunninghame South) (SNP): "To ask the Scottish Government what work it is doing to support sustainable farming and food production that is based on improving biodiversity. (S6O-04900)"

Votes

How Ruth Maguire has voted in Parliament

Find out how Ruth Maguire has voted recently.

Motion ref. S6M-19123

Mobile Phones in Schools

Submitted by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, Glasgow, Scottish Labour. Date lodged: Monday, September 29, 2025

Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Result 85 for, 26 against, 0 abstained, 18 did not vote

MSP voted for

Agreed

Motion ref. S6M-19124.1

Protecting Scotland’s Fire Service

Submitted by: Sharon Dowey, South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party. Date lodged: Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Result 54 for, 56 against, 2 abstained, 17 did not vote

MSP voted against

Disagreed

Motion ref. S6M-19124

Protecting Scotland’s Fire Service

Submitted by: Katy Clark, West Scotland, Scottish Labour. Date lodged: Monday, September 29, 2025

Supported by: Paul Sweeney
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Result 56 for, 53 against, 3 abstained, 17 did not vote

MSP voted for

Agreed

Motion ref. S6M-19124.2

Protecting Scotland’s Fire Service

Submitted by: Siobhian Brown, Ayr, Scottish National Party. Date lodged: Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Supported by: Angela Constance
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Result 55 for, 52 against, 3 abstained, 19 did not vote

MSP voted for

Agreed

Motion ref. S6M-19123.1

Mobile Phones in Schools

Submitted by: Miles Briggs, Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party. Date lodged: Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Result 49 for, 62 against, 0 abstained, 18 did not vote

MSP voted against

Disagreed

Motions

Questions

Questions Ruth Maguire has asked

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

Question reference: S6O-05030

Asked by: Ruth Maguire, Cunninghame South, Scottish National Party

Date lodged:1 October 2025

Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 8 October 2025

"To ask the Scottish Government what representations NGOs have made to it regarding its work to support humanitarian assistance in Palestine."

Question reference: S6F-04281

Asked by: Ruth Maguire, Cunninghame South, Scottish National Party

Date lodged:8 September 2025

Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 11 September 2025

"To ask the First Minister, in light of reports of the rising rate of poverty for families with a baby under one and new evidence from Save the Children that increasing Best Start Grant and Best Start Foods payments could significantly reduce the child poverty rate for this priority group, whether the Scottish Government will consider increasing…

Question reference: S6O-04900

Asked by: Ruth Maguire, Cunninghame South, Scottish National Party

Date lodged:3 September 2025

Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 10 September 2025

"To ask the Scottish Government what work it is doing to support sustainable farming and food production that is based on improving biodiversity."

Question reference: S6W-39503

Asked by: Ruth Maguire, Cunninghame South, Scottish National Party

Date lodged:23 July 2025

Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 8 August 2025

"To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the report, Forensic Science in England and Wales: Pulling Out of the Graveyard Spiral, published on 9 June 2025 by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Miscarriages of Justice, which highlighted shortcomings with forensic science capabilities in England and Wales that could make miscarriages of…

Question reference: S6W-39569

Asked by: Ruth Maguire, Cunninghame South, Scottish National Party

Date lodged:28 July 2025

Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 8 August 2025

"To ask the Scottish Government, when bail conditions for a perpetrator of domestic abuse are considered, what regard is given to the views of the victim; how any views and information provided by the victim are collected, and what the rights of the victim are with regard to access to information on the bail conditions of the perpetrator."

Question reference: S6W-39567

Asked by: Ruth Maguire, Cunninghame South, Scottish National Party

Date lodged:28 July 2025

Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 1 August 2025

"To ask the Scottish Government how many times an individual, who was arrested for domestic abuse offences and then released from police custody with conditions or an undertaking, breached those conditions or that undertaking, in 2023-24."

Question reference: S6W-39568

Asked by: Ruth Maguire, Cunninghame South, Scottish National Party

Date lodged:28 July 2025

Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 1 August 2025

"To ask the Scottish Government how many bail-related offences were associated with an original charge of domestic abuse in 2023-24."

Question reference: S6W-30962

Asked by: Ruth Maguire, Cunninghame South, Scottish National Party

Date lodged:30 October 2024

Current Status: Answered by Dorothy Bain on 11 November 2024

"To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-29907 by Dorothy Bain on 26 September 2024, how many contracts and service level agreements for pathology and mortuary services the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has; whether all contracts and service level agreements require pathologists to meet with the…

Question reference: S6O-03881

Asked by: Ruth Maguire, Cunninghame South, Scottish National Party

Date lodged:30 October 2024

Question reference: S6W-29907

Asked by: Ruth Maguire, Cunninghame South, Scottish National Party

Date lodged:17 September 2024

Current Status: Answered by Dorothy Bain on 26 September 2024

"To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the publication of the findings of the independent review of the forensic pathology response to the Hillsborough disaster, conducted by forensic science expert, Glenn Taylor, which identified seven areas for reform, what further action forensic pathology services in Scotland can take to ensure that they…

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