Are tenant farmers, let down by bad law, also snagged in politics?
The current situation faced by tenant farmers in Scotland could hardly be more serious. It requires immediate attention yet there is no government plan to address it.The situation was brought to our...
View ArticleVisit to Gigha leads Labour MSP to demand Scottish Government gets serious...
David Stewart, Labour MSP for the Highlands and Islands, is urging the Scottish Government to get serious about land reform on following a recent visit to Gigha.Mr Stewart, who visited the island as...
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Labour MSP says ‘The Fight for the long term future of CalMac starts today’.
David Stewart, Labour Highlands and Islands MSP and long term ferries campaigner, has welcomed the decision of the Scottish Government to delay the tendering of the west coast ferry services and award...
View ArticleDavid Stewart calls for ‘next chapter in land reform’
During a debate in the Scottish Parliament today, celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Argyll’s Isle of Gigha community buy out, Highlands and Islands Labour MSP, David Stewart, has called for the next...
View ArticleDavid Stewart MSP concerned about Court of Session ruling on tenant farmers
Scotland’s tenant farmers are facing considerable uncertainty as a consequence of two significant rulings by the Court of Session in recent months that effectively call into doubt the competence of the...
View ArticleDavid Stewart says Scottish Government’s oil plans mean tax rises or spending...
Highlands and Islands Labour MSP, David Stewart, is warning that Scottish Government’s plans for TWO oil funds in an independent Scotland would mean big tax rises for hard working families across the...
View ArticleStewart calls for action on shortage of educational psychologists
Highlands and Islands MSP, David Stewart, supports a call from the leading coalition of third and independent sector providers of children’s services.The call is to the Scottish Government to take...
View ArticleOperational concerns as Police Scotland and Scottish Fire & Rescue go for...
Scotland and the UK is still caught in the aftermath of a prematurely introduced and ill-considered halving of the coastguard service’s Maritime Rescue Coordination Centres [MRCCs] around the UK...
View ArticleCall for responses to Justice Committee on reform of Fire & Rescue Service
Rhoda Grant and David Stewart, both Highlands and Islands Labour MSPs, are appealing to people throughout the region to respond to the request from the Scottish Parliament’s Justice Committee for...
View ArticleDavid Stewart’s Parliamentary question and FOI release show Transport...
Transport Minister, Keith Brown MSP, has been shown, materially and knowingly, to have misled a fellow MSP in a written answer he provided to Dave Stewart MSP on 24th January 2013 – an answer to a...
View ArticleDavid Stewart writes to Cabinet Finance Secretary on ‘low pay loophole’ in...
David Stewart MSP has demanded the Scottish Government conduct an urgent review of sub-contracted jobs in the public sector.The Highlands and Islands Labour MSP is saying that rules on public contracts...
View ArticleMore PQs on Gourock-Dunoon ferry: blushes for MSP who hadn’t done his homework
MSP’s can be and are fed parliamentary questions by interested parties in their constituencies.Clued-up and responsible MSPs will make sure that they either already know – or work to know, the ins and...
View ArticleStewart calls for graduated driving licences following RAC data on young...
The RAC Foundation has today issued data on the human cost of car crashes involving young drivers, covering 49 areas across Britain and highlighting significant regional variations.From the data, rural...
View ArticleSerious consequences of Scottish Fire and Rescue Service decision to levy...
Yesterday, 30th May, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service [SFRS] announced that they plan to levy charges on members of the public for call outs to incidents deemed as ‘non-emergency’, and for...
View ArticleTransport Minister politely puts ill-briefed MSP back in his box – and dances...
As For Argyll reported recently, Labour Highlands and Islands MSP, David Stewart. offered his credibility as hostage in submitting a fleet of parliamentary questions to the Scottish Government which...
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