Scot Govt challenged over the future of HIE
The Scottish Government has been urged to allay concerns that its public service reforms could become “yet another attempt to centralise Highlands and Islands Enterprise”.
All the latest news from the Highland Liberal Democrats.
The Scottish Government has been urged to allay concerns that its public service reforms could become “yet another attempt to centralise Highlands and Islands Enterprise”.
The Culture Secretary will visit the Caithness Broch Project, the pioneering heritage charity behind ambitious plans to build the world’s first full-scale, historically accurate broch in 2,000 years.
The Health Secretary has agreed to visit Highland Hospice to learn more about how its End of Life Care Together partnership with NHS Highland is helping to deliver care for people at home and reduce delayed discharges from hospital.
The Scottish Government’s review of their wildfire strategy must “look again” at recruitment challenges and “test why the current model isn’t working for rural communities”, Far North MSP David Green has said.
The First Minister has been warned that NHS Highland’s oncology staffing crisis is the “consequence of a national shortage of oncologists” and has been urged to bring forward a 10-year NHS workforce plan that is “finally fit for purpose.”
Responding the First Minister’s announcement of plans to centralise Scotland’s fourteen regional health boards to just two.
With hundreds of people sleeping rough across Scotland in this weekend's yellow weather warning, the Scottish Liberal Democrats are calling on the SNP government to move faster to tackle the housing emergency.
Susan Murray, Liberal Democrat MP for Mid Dunbartonshire, has called on the Government to put retraining for those working in the oil industry at the heart of its plans for the future of the North Sea.
Scottish Liberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur has today criticised the Scottish Government’s decision to cut the frequency with which it publishes statistics on homeless deaths, reducing the publication from annual to every two years.
Responding to the discovery of critical cyber security weaknesses in websites worldwide, which has forced the City of Edinburgh council website offline, Edinburgh Northern MSP and local councillor Sanne Dijkstra-Downie said:
Responding to the UK Government's decision to approve Jackdaw, Scottish Liberal Democrats climate, environment and energy spokesperson Sanne Dijkstra-Downie MSP commented:
Liberal Democrat MP Angus MacDonald has today called on the UK Government to ensure communities in the Highlands receive “a fair return” from the multi-billion-pound pumped storage projects planned for the region.
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