Alison Johnstone MSP is the elected Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament. Annabelle Ewing and Liam McArthur are Deputy Presiding Officers (DPOs). Find out more about the Presiding Officer and DPOs Public petitions Petitions are a way to ask the Parliament to do something. ...
We also submitted two amendments, one to a UNISON motion on housing calling for the STUC to campaign for interim rent controls to cover the period before new powers from the newly introduced housing bill in the Scottish Parliament are enacted. Our other amendment was to an EIS motion on pove...
Stirling SNP MSP Evelyn Tweed to quit at next Holyrood election 13 Feb 2025 at 3:36pm Ms Tweed will leave the Scottish Parliament in 2026 after serving just one term. Nurse suing NHS Fife breaks silence on ?gruelling? employment tribunal ...
The Scottish Parliament evolved during the middle ages from the kingscouncil of bishops and earls. It is perhaps first identifiable as aparliament in 1235, described as a colloquium and already with apolitical and judicial role. By the early fourteenth century theattendance of knights and freeholder...
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Nicola Sturgeon serves as the First Minister of the Scottish Parliament. Sturgeon has sat in the Scottish Parliament since May 6, 1999. As of 2022, she remains a Member of the Scottish Parlament. She is the Leader of the Scottish National Party....
A ban of 10 days or more would be enough to trigger a recall petition in Westminster, however the Scottish parliament has no such mechanism. Labour MSP Martin Whitfield, the committee convener, said the sanctions reflected the seriousness of the breach. ...
Bill Walker, former Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Dunfermline Constituency, has welcomed the positive reception to Volume 1 of his recently published autobiography, ‘Bill Walker: My Story’ and advises of the forthcoming release of Volume 2. ...
He was Chief Executive of the SNP from 1994 to 1999 and was elected to the Scottish Parliament as a regional MSP for the South of Scotland at the first Scottish Parliament elections in 1999. However, he lost his seat in the 2003 Scottish Parliament Election. He was elected a...
Speaking at the annual general meeting of the Scottish Department of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society on 6 June,Scottish Nationalist MSP Roseanna Cunningham advised pharmacists to be proactive in their dealings with the Scottish Parliament.The Pharmaceutical Journal Group...