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Official Report
Meeting date:
26 June 2019
Meeting of the Parliament 26 June 2019
Given that we collectively signed up to the Child Poverty (Scotland) Act 2017 and to hitting the targets to shift the curve on child poverty, it is incumbent on all MSPs across the Parliament to welcome and support the new benefit and give their assurance today that, if they ever reach Administration, they will seek to continue its payment.
Official Report
Meeting date:
20 June 2019
Meeting of the Parliament 20 June 2019
I will continue to engage with and listen to stakeholders, and I will maintain my open-door policy for all MSPs. I will carry out my role to protect all rights and promote equality for all respectfully.
Official Report
Meeting date:
2 May 2019
Meeting of the Parliament 02 May 2019
I have had lots of phone calls and direct advice from the Royal College of Nursing, chief nursing officers from NHS Dumfries and Galloway and NHS Ayrshire and Arran, and representatives from Scottish Care. I was a new MSP for South Scotland when the First Minister announced the Scottish Government’s intention to enshrine safe staffing in law at the Royal C...
Official Report
Meeting date:
6 December 2018
Meeting of the Parliament 06 December 2018
We must continually drive to put pressure on all political parties and the Government to improve that situation. Before I was elected as an MSP, I worked in an HIV agency during the years when we were starting to see the first effective antiretrovirals becoming more available.
Official Report
Meeting date:
28 November 2018
Meeting of the Parliament 28 November 2018
According to Age Scotland, 37 per cent of people over the age of 60 in Scotland do not use the internet, which is equivalent to the size of Edinburgh’s population. My colleague Gordon Lindhurst MSP has said that members of the Economy, Jobs and Fair Work Committee and the Scottish Parliament were “in no doubt that the loss of branches has had a negative im...
Official Report
Meeting date:
27 June 2018
Meeting of the Parliament 27 June 2018
The debate is timely, given that almost all of us who have participated seem to have attended the Royal Highland Show last week, along with 190,000 others who visited the show over its four days. Indeed, I encountered so many MSPs at the show during the Thursday that I wondered whether the chamber was entirely empty when we were supposed to be at work.
Official Report
Meeting date:
24 April 2018
Justice Committee 24 April 2018
The feedback that we received from the consultation is supportive of it because we have based the approach on consultation, on letters that I have received over the past number of years from individuals and from MSPs and Scottish MPs on behalf of their constituents, and on the parliamentary questions that have been asked over the years.
Official Report
Meeting date:
27 March 2018
Meeting of the Parliament 27 March 2018
Although that is great, as Rona Mackay said, all MSPs have a role to play in asking what is happening in their constituencies and in promoting that excellent programme in schools.
Official Report
Meeting date:
22 March 2018
Meeting of the Parliament 22 March 2018
There are very few tenets of society to which we all aspire, but that is absolutely one. As an MSP for a constituency in our nation’s capital, I am proud of the many businesses and social enterprises that go out of their way to recruit not just people with Down’s syndrome but those with other learning difficulties.
Official Report
Meeting date:
15 March 2018
Equalities and Human Rights Committee 15 March 2018
However, the continuity bill makes no provision for that right after Brexit. Tavish Scott MSP lodged an amendment on that, which I supported, but I know that it has fallen.
