All the latest news from the Highland Liberal Democrats.
An emergency 5% VAT cut for pubs, restaurants and other hospitality businesses should be introduced in the upcoming Budget to drive growth for high streets and rural businesses alike and slash prices for hard-pressed families, an MSP hopeful has said.
The Scottish Government has today agreed to back a Scottish Liberal Democrat amendment in Holyrood calling for an independent review of maternity services in Caithness.
Almost 40,000 days of staff time for nurses and midwives have been lost across NHS Highland over the last five years due to a growing mental health crisis, the Highland Liberal Democrats have said.
The Scottish Government is being urged to urgently step in to find a replacement for lifeline services from Wick airport in response to Eastern Airways facing administration.
Angus MacDonald, MP for Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire, and Kate Forbes, MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch, are co-hosting a conference on adult social care in Fort William on Friday 24th October.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is being urged to reconsider and broaden its current ‘Access to Cash’ policy to include an ‘Access to Banks’ provision following the recent mass closure of local bank branches across the UK.
The Scottish Parliament has today backed an amendment from Scottish Liberal Democrat culture spokesperson David Green which calls on the SNP government to provide a major boost to the gaming industry through a new national games innovation centre.
Scottish Liberal Democrat rural affairs spokesperson and MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch Andrew Baxter has written to First Minister John Swinney urging him to commit to a genuinely independent review of the response to the Cairngorms wildfire.
Scottish Liberal Democrat Adam Harley has today urged the Scottish Government to use “the abundance of powers already at its disposal” to get on with the rollout of safer drug consumption rooms across the country.
Responding to new figures showing that there were 1,113 drug deaths in Scotland in 2025, an increase of 11% (116 deaths) compared to the year before, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:
Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Adam Harley MSP has today said that the SNP government “must waste no time” in rolling out a Scotland-wide network of safer drug consumption rooms, ahead of new annual figures.
Scottish Liberal Democrat David Green MSP has today said that the SNP are “silent on the issues Scotland needs them to fix”, following a debate in the Scottish Parliament on the constitution.
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