Today I signed shelter Scotland’s pledge, Making Renting Right; a new national campaign aimed at making Scotland’s growing private rented sector fit for families and fairer for all is The campaign, launched today outside the Scottish Parliament, aims to raise awareness of and build public support for reforming the outdated private tenancy regime which sees too many households forced […]
Last week I circulated a discussion paper to Labour Party members in my constituency, two weeks ago ahead of a constituency meeting taking place this Friday. In My discussion paper I argue that Scottish Labour is the party of home rule in Scotland and post referendum needs to reaffirm this position; setting out what it stands for […]
Cowdenbeath MSP Alex Rowley has written to all Community Councils in his constituency highlighting the case of Neilston Community Wind Farm where the local community will receive a £10 million return over the lifetime of their project and is asking communities to look at such developments when considering any future proposals for wind turbines in […]
Alex Rowley MSP has written to the Scottish Health Secretary Alex Neal following a meeting with Local constituents Alan and Tracy Straker who contacted Mr Rowley to highlight the work they are doing along side the SEPSIS UK Trust. Alan and Tracy wish to raise awareness of Sepsis in Scotland after the tragic passing of […]
As part of my aim to meet as many constituents as possible and listen to what you have to say I have kicked of an exercise of doing street surgeries whereby I write to residents in a street advising them of a time I will be in that street and asking them to put a […]
I attended the launch of Clock Street Pastors this week where Provost Jim Leishman along with church leaders, the police and local people talked about this new initiative for Cowdenbeath, Kelty and Lochgelly. The new Street Pastor project will be up and running by the end of the year and the idea is that pastors […]
The Westminster party leaders promised the Scottish people new democratic powers on a clear timetable. But since the referendum, David Cameron has said he wants to link democratic powers for Scotland to other changes like banning Scots MPs from voting on some issues in the UK parliament. This could mean the promise gets delayed or […]
LAST week I spoke in the First Minister’s debate on the outcome of the Referendum and gave my view that the outcome was not about who won and who lost as I believe that all 3.6 million people who voted are the winners. We are all winners for we all voted for change, we were […]
It was a great pleasure to join along with the local community the pupils and teachers of St Kenneth’s Primary School at a mass in Ballingry to celebrate 100 years of the school. The service was lead by Archbishop Cushley with readings from pupils. St Columba’s High School Pipe Band were on great form and […]
A Fife MSP has called for a national housing strategy to be put in place with the objective to tackle what he calls the ‘growing housing crisis’ in Scotland. Speaking in the Scottish Parliament Alex Rowley highlighted the current housing position in Scotland stating; “There are over 150,000 people on the council waiting lists in […]