Let me start off my first column of 2018 for the News by wishing you all a Happy New Year.
I hope you all had a great Christmas and managed to catch up with family and friends during the festive period.
Now with the holidays drawing to a close it’s time to get back to work.
Looking through the di
In this week's Local Government and Communities Committee we were scrutinising the government's draft budget. I took the opportunity to question Finance Secretary Derek Mackay over the unintended consequences of removing charitable status from independent nurseries and schools.
Like Mr Mackay,
In this week's Local Government and Communities Committee I grilled the Finance Secretary Derek Mackay over the draft budget and the cuts to local authorities. We clearly have a different opinion on what constitutes a cut.
I spoke in the parliamentary debate A Fairer Scotland - Delivering Race Equality. You can watch the full speech in the video above.
The motion for the debate was as follows:
"That this Parliament believes that no one should be marginalised or discriminated a
I asked Housing Minister Kevin Stewart about the Scottish Government's fuel poverty failures. Unfortunately he wasn't able to give a direct answer to my question as you will see in the video above.
Statistics published in the Housing Statistics for Scotland Quarterly Update have highlighted an increasingly dire situation for Scotland’s housing sector.
The figures show that the number of new homes completed annually has fallen by a third since 2007.
A LOCAL MSP reckons the high street is the heart and soul of any community after seeing how one small business has big plans for the future.
Conservative Graham Simpson was speaking after a recent visit to a Motherwell company to help promote Small Business Saturday.
The MSP spent time at Fix-PC w
The Scottish Government has published the Planning (Scotland) Bill on the same day that figures have shown that planning applications for local housing, householder and major housing developments have all fallen.
