The European Commission’s Chief Negotiator for Brexit, Michel Barnier, is to meet the Scottish Parliament’s European Committee on Monday (11 September 2017). The Committee will hear first-hand about the progress of the negotiations and the respective positions of the EU and the UK from the European Commission’s perspective. Continue reading EC’s Brexit negotiatons chief to brief Holyrood committee
The SNP has challenged opposition parties to back “the greenest programme for government in the history of the Scottish Parliament”, as described by environmental campaigners.
The legislative agenda unveiled by the First Minister yesterday details 16 new bills, including ambitious plans to phase out the need for petrol and diesel vehicles by 2032 and launch a Scottish National Investment Bank. The programme also includes actions to tackle poverty and to transform education. Continue reading SNP challenges opposition to support ‘greenest agenda ever’
Seizing the opportunities of the low carbon revolution, investing in future economic growth and improving the lives of all our young people will be central to the Scottish Government’s Programme for the coming year, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced yesterday. Continue reading Scottish Government goes green
Scottish Government to ‘refocus and refresh’
Holyrood’s back, and later this week First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will unveil her ‘most ambitious Programme for Government yet’, focused around a ‘bold agenda to strengthen and modernise the economy’. The programme will be announced following months of accusations that the government has run out of ideas and has been fixated for too long on a second independence referendum. Continue reading Scottish government: getting back to the day job?
Low income families across Scotland will be thousands of pounds a year worse off per year because of welfare cuts imposed by the UK government, a new report has found. The Scottish Government report, ‘the Impact of UK Welfare Policy on Families with Children’, looks at what the policies implemented since 2015 will mean for families. Continue reading Report sets out ‘”devastating impact” of Westminster’s welfare cuts
World Press Photo 2017
Friday 4 August – Saturday 26 August 2017 (closed Sundays) Free entry
The worldwide touring exhibition of award-winning photos opens at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood today. Continue reading See World Press Photo Exhibition at Scottish Parliament
Free talk at Scottish Parliament
The secrets and complexities of the Jacobites will be explored at the Scottish Parliament as leading Scottish artist Calum Colvin gives a free talk on his ‘Jacobites by Name’ photographic series. Continue reading Explore the secrets of the Jacobites
Keith Brown: ‘Ambitious’ city deal will deliver opportunities across Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife and the Borders.
Continue reading ‘Ambitious’ City Deal to bring 21,000 jobs to Edinburgh
The Scottish Parliament’s Equalities and Human Rights Committee is setting out a series of measures it wants the Scottish Government to adopt to tackle prejudice-based bullying in Scottish schools. Continue reading It’s not cool to be cruel: Holyrood sets out plan to tackle bullying
Scotland’s economy has returned to growth. Latest figures show an encouraging 0.8% growth in the first quarter of 2017. This improvement follows two periods of decline which some economists believed would result in Scotland moving into recession. Politicians from both sides of the border have welcomed the figures – but Holyrood and Westminster have different interpretations as to why the Scottish economy is showing signs of improvement. Continue reading Scottish economy bouncing back?
