Anti-Strike Legislation - 30/1/23
/My comments on the Government's Minimum Service Levels Bill.
Urgent Question - Energy Support - 25/1/23
/8.4 million households will be in fuel poverty by April
"...isn't it a disgrace that energy-rich Scotland's "Union dividend" is people unable to turn their gas on, when Scotland is a net exporter of gas?"
Urgent Question: Britishvolt - 18/1/23
/"It has actually always irritated me that the Tories claim they are the very ones to level up communities - the very communities that they devastated in the first place."
My Urgent Question from earlier.
Business Question - 19/1/23
/Constituent case raised at Business Questions
"So can we get a Government Statement outlying how the Government is going to better manage payments to victims of domestic abuse and importantly, confirmation that Susan will get the money that she deserves - to live."
Ministerial Response to GRR - 17/1/23
/"Now, the bottom line is, you know if you are on the right side of the argument when you are on the opposite side of that lot there."
My full response to Westminster's latest attack on devolution
GRR Bill - 16/1/23
/Latest Westminster attack on devolution
"...after six years of consultation and discussions about the GRR Bill, when did this Government suddenly discover that equal pay is somehow threatened by it? And what is the problem with equal pay, that he says is under threat?"
Anti-strike Legislation - 16/1/23
/"There are no strikes planned in the health service in Scotland and the pay deal being implemented by the Scottish Government is one that the UK Government should replicate as a starting point when they get around the negotiating table."
Small Business Support - 9/1/23
/Despite the bulk of the £56bn energy profits levy coming from Scotland, many Scottish businesses are left struggling.
Struther Farmhouse in my constituency is facing a 500% increase in their energy bill, with gas & electricity up £25,000 in a year.
Small businesses need proper support.
Industrial Action - 10/1/23
/Scotland will have anti-worker legislation forced on it by Westminster
"An imposition made easier by the Labour Party agreeing with the Tories that workers' rights should remain at Westminster and not be devolved to Scotland."
Respecting Scottish Electorate - 9/1/23
/Westminster refuses to respect the Scottish electorate
Pro-indy majority at Holyrood
Recent poll conveying 72% of Scots wish to rejoin EU
No mechanism for a vote on staying or leaving this so-called "voluntary Union"
