All the latest news from the Highland Liberal Democrats.
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 Highland Liberal Democrats have called for a new law to strengthen rural communities, accusing the SNP government of “a broken relationship with rural Scotland” that has left many rural areas forgotten and left behind.
Far North Liberal Democrats Jamie Stone and David Green have written to the Secretary of State for Transport to raise concerns regarding the backlog of practical driving tests in the Highlands.
The Scottish Government and NHS Highland are being urged to set out a timetable for collating the information required for Scottish Ministers to make a decision in response to calls for an independent review of maternity services in Caithness.
The Liberal Democrat candidate for the Far North, David Green, says it “stinks” that the Scottish Government has no plans monitor 100% of overflows despite sewage concerns raised by Caithness campaigners.
Orkney and Shetland MP, Alistair Carmichael, has written to Europcar to challenge their “bizarre” policy of treating people from UK islands (including Shetland, Orkney, the Hebrides, the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight) as “overseas customers”, and
Scottish Liberal Democrat education and children spokesperson Duncan Dunlop MSP has today said that the SNP need to do better for care-experienced children, as new figures show worryingly lower rates of attendance, attainment and positive leaver destinati
Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Yi-pei Chou Turvey MSP has today said the SNP must urgently step up support for Scotland’s justice system as new figures revealed that sexual crime is at its highest level since 1971.
Scottish Liberal Democrat MSP for Edinburgh Northern Sanne Dijkstra-Downie has today challenged the First Minister over action to tackle violence in schools as a new report revealed the number of violent incidents soaring in the capital.
Responding to the news that Peter Murrell has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison for embezzlement, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said:
Scottish Liberal Democrat Europe spokesperson David Green has today (Tuesday 23rd June) said that Reform UK should use their first debate in the Scottish Parliament to recognise that Brexit is costing taxpayers across the country £90 billion every year.
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