Alex constituency work and important updates
Fife MSP Alex Rowley has questioned the Scottish Government on what they are doing to address the poor rail services within Fife on the Fife circle route highlighting the practice of trains skipping stations to make up time and the lack of adequate carriages in peak times as unacceptable. Speaking in Parliament Mr Rowley […]
Alex Rowley MSP has praised the work of Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity (ECHC) and pledged to support its work across Scotland in 2018. The Mid Scotland & Fife MSP met with the charity in the Scottish Parliament to learn about the important work it carries out for children across the country. The Mid […]
I continue to campaign for social rented housing to be built to tackle the housing crisis in Scotland. Alongside this we need to see the levels of new build for all sectors, including home ownership, rise to pre-recession levels, which sadly is not happening. The Scottish Government have brought forward a new planning bill to […]
The UK Government has gone ahead and rolled out Universal Credit in Fife despite all the evidence that it is causing widespread misery for tens of thousands of people across the country. Both the Scottish Government and Fife Council are taking action to mitigate the worst elements of this flawed legislation and changes but […]
Many organisations and groups have used the lead up to this year’s Scottish Budget being published to highlight the specific issues they would like to see addressed. NUS Scotland have set out their keys issues through a campaign they call ‘Budget for Better’ and they say the current student support system is broken. You […]
Many have been saddened, if not shocked, by the latest round of branch closures announced by the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). I have been a member of that bank since my teens, mainly because it was the only bank based in the village where I live, and I have always stayed with it because […]
This week we saw a report published by the Social Mobility Commission “State of the Nation 2017: “Social Mobility in Great Britain”. The Commission say Britain is a deeply divided nation. Those divisions take many forms. Class, income, gender, race. In recent years, each has been the subject of much scrutiny. But one form […]
This week at FMQs I questioned the First Minister on the release of a new Audit Scotland report on the state of Scotland’s health service. This report raises massive concerns for the state of our NHS. It shows the failings in budgets and the financial management of health and social care, the shortages of […]
I was pleased to join with campaigners from Scotland Against Fracking, the Broad Alliance, WWF Scotland and Friends of the Earth Scotland outside the Scottish Parliament today calling for support from the Parliament to end fracking in Scotland. I supported the Government motion which due to a Labour amendment effectively bans fracking from taking […]
I recently joined with a number of fellow MSP’s and campaigners outside the Scottish Parliament to support Battersea Dogs & Cats Home’s campaign calling for five year sentences for animal cruelty offences in Scotland. There is no place for animal cruelty in Scotland. This is why I have regularly stood up against it. I have […]