SNP U-TURN ON DENYING OLDER PEOPLE SCREENING FOR BREAST CANCER 30 Nov 2023 Jackie Baillie has declared a victory for older women after the SNP government back-tracked on…
HEARTBREAKING DEATH TOLL REVEALED AS HOUSING EMERGENCY CAUSING MISERY IN DUMBARTON, VALE OF LEVEN, HELENSBURGH AND LOMOND 29 Nov 2023 Jackie Baillie has declared a housing emergency across Dumbarton and the Vale of Leven after…
BANK OF SCOTLAND URGED TO CONSULT RATHER THAN ENFORCE KILCREGGAN BRANCH CLOSURE 29 Nov 2023 Jackie Baillie has urged the Bank of Scotland to consult with local communities after they…
Social Services (Cuts) 20 Jun 2024 First Minister’s Question Time Scottish Parliament debates Across Scotland, national health service and social care partnerships are facing a combined budget gap of almost £1.4 billion, which means that there will be severe cuts to social care... Read more →
Funding and Expenditure 06 Jun 2024 First Minister’s Question Time Scottish Parliament debates Is it any wonder that the people of Scotland are crying out for change from 14 years of Tory chaos and 17 years of SNP incompetence? Read more →
Funding and Expenditure 06 Jun 2024 First Minister’s Question Time Scottish Parliament debates Last year, Kate Forbes attacked Humza Yousaf and said that continuity would not cut it, but she seems to have failed to learn her own lesson, because all that we have heard today is more of the... Read more →
Funding and Expenditure 06 Jun 2024 First Minister’s Question Time Scottish Parliament debates Her attack is straight out of the Tory playbook. Is she not aware that the people of Scotland can see right through that very desperate spin from the SNP? People are tired of the chaos. They are... Read more →
Funding and Expenditure 06 Jun 2024 First Minister’s Question Time Scottish Parliament debates That was a desperate response from the Deputy First Minister. She had no answer to the £5 billion of waste generated under her watch, and she knows that she is misleading the chamber,... Read more →
Funding and Expenditure 06 Jun 2024 First Minister’s Question Time Scottish Parliament debates Given the real challenges in the country, can the Deputy First Minister explain to the people of Scotland why the SNP is wasting their money, because that is utterly indefensible? Read more →
Funding and Expenditure 06 Jun 2024 First Minister’s Question Time Scottish Parliament debates That includes agency spend costing the national heath service more than £1.6 billion, delayed discharge costing more than £1.3 billion and ferries now £330 million over... Read more →
Funding and Expenditure 06 Jun 2024 First Minister’s Question Time Scottish Parliament debates Wait for it. That analysis reveals that the SNP has wasted £5 billion since it came to office. [ Interruption .] Read more →
Funding and Expenditure 06 Jun 2024 First Minister’s Question Time Scottish Parliament debates It unforgivable that the SNP is wasting taxpayers’ money. The scale of the incompetence goes even further. New analysis published by the Scottish Labour Party today reveals that the... Read more →
Funding and Expenditure 06 Jun 2024 First Minister’s Question Time Scottish Parliament debates It is interesting that the clawback in Scotland is going to be greater than anywhere else in the UK. The scale of return in Scotland is likely to be 28 per cent; in Wales, it is 9 per cent; in... Read more →
Funding and Expenditure 06 Jun 2024 First Minister’s Question Time Scottish Parliament debates I share the sentiments of the Deputy First Minister and Douglas Ross on this day, the 80th anniversary of D day. It is right that we commemorate all the Scottish, British and Commonwealth... Read more →
NHS Physiotherapy Workforce 30 May 2024 Scottish Parliament debates I join others in congratulating Alex Rowley on bringing this important debate to the Parliament and on the content of his speech. He is absolutely right that the issue sits in the wider context... Read more →
Funeral Businesses (Regulation) 23 May 2024 First Minister’s Question Time Scottish Parliament debates The First Minister will be aware of the unfolding scandal with the funeral business run by Steven and Ashleigh Milne. Ashes of the deceased have knowingly been given to the wrong relatives, and... Read more →
Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People (Cass Review) 08 May 2024 Scottish Parliament debates Will the minister take an intervention? Read more →
Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People (Cass Review) 08 May 2024 Scottish Parliament debates Will the member take an intervention? Read more →
Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People (Cass Review) 08 May 2024 Scottish Parliament debates I am about to close. We have asked for openness and transparency, with the new working group publishing papers and minutes. I understand that the Government will partially agree to... Read more →
Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People (Cass Review) 08 May 2024 Scottish Parliament debates The Cass review is a considered, evidence-based report that was drawn up by experts. It was led by Dr Hilary Cass, former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, and it... Read more →
World Asthma Day 2024 08 May 2024 Scottish Parliament debates I thank Emma Harper for securing this debate to mark world asthma day 2024. I also say well done to Jackie Dunbar, and urge her to keep going. I gave up smoking 22 years ago and have never looked... Read more →
Specialist Alcohol Services 08 May 2024 Portfolio Question Time Scottish Parliament debates Last week, the Glasgow alcohol and drug partnership decided to downgrade the alcohol nurse outreach service by transferring it to a more generic drugs and alcohol service. That was done as a... Read more →
Specialist Alcohol Services 08 May 2024 Portfolio Question Time Scottish Parliament debates To ask the Scottish Government what value it places on specialist alcohol services, such as the primary care alcohol nurse outreach service in Glasgow, in dealing with the reported public health... Read more →