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…
Decision Time 26 Jun 2024 Scottish Parliament debates On a point of order, Presiding Officer. I could not connect to the app. I would have voted yes. Read more →
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 →
Health and Social Care 04 Jun 2024 Scottish Parliament debates [ Made a request to intervene .] Read more →
Health and Social Care 04 Jun 2024 Scottish Parliament debates First, those figures are neither misleading nor factually inaccurate. They were taken from data that has been published by Public Health Scotland. I will now focus on waiting times,... Read more →
Health and Social Care 04 Jun 2024 Scottish Parliament debates I think that this debate has been misnamed. It is entitled “A Vision for Health and Social Care in Scotland”, but this SNP Government has not had any vision for health and social care... 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 →
Michael Matheson 29 May 2024 Scottish Parliament debates I would be nothing other than careful, and everything that I have said is factual. The people of Scotland need to have a right to recall their MSPs, but, until that happens, I think... Read more →
Michael Matheson 29 May 2024 Scottish Parliament debates I am coming to a close, Presiding Officer. Read more →
Michael Matheson 29 May 2024 Scottish Parliament debates No, thank you. Her constituents recalled her, there was a by-election and the people of Rutherglen and Hamilton West elected Labour’s Michael Shanks by a resounding majority.... Read more →
Michael Matheson 29 May 2024 Scottish Parliament debates I will not dispute the information and data that has been given. That is the one time of the year that our constituents take a break and decide not to email us, so I struggle to understand how... Read more →