It might not rank as one of the great pieces of oratory, but I would suggest that Scottish Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon’s speech before a packed Debating Chamber yesterday will long be remembered as another milestone in Holyrood’s maturation.
MSPs have joined a campaign to try to persuade Scotland’s cities to provide charging points for electric vehicles.
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Morhamburn’s authoritative round-up of all Holyrood activity for the week ahead.
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Audit Scotland tells us that things are going to get worse for Scotland’s councils. In its 2009 Review it states that councils and services are improving but the scale of the budget challenge they face means urgent action is needed.
Waterwatch Scotland, the national complaints handling authority for all domestic and non-domestic water customers and customer representative body for the water industry in Scotland, is actively seeking feedback from Bathgate residents on a wide range of issues, including the service customers receive from Scottish Water.
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All the parties’ communication experts are identifying the social networking frontiers as a key battleground. We’ve already had the Gordon Brown You-tube experience and the Cameronians are partial to some twittering, in the Scottish Parliament the Lib Dems lead the way on facebook usage behind the one man show that Patrick Harvie MSP, and political parties’ members can blog to their hearts content.
The media coverage of the ‘lunchgate’ scandal has barely subsided and the SNP lurched into more stormy headlines. At Thursdays FMQs, Labour was calling for the resignation of Nicola Sturgeon, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Health. Ms Sturgeon’s crime was to provide a character reference for a constituent who is currently facing charges of benefits fraud and has previously been convicted of the same crime. Regardless of your opinion on the actions of Ms Sturgeon, two questions have to be asked: would the same media storm have been created by a backbench MSP? And, should we differentiate between when cabinet members are acting in their ministerial roles and when they are acting as a constituency MSP?
Waterwatch Scotland (WWS), the independent consumer watchdog for Scotland’s water industry, is returning to Campbeltown today nine months after publishing its critical report into Scottish Water’s mismanagement of waste water treatment operations in the Argyll and Bute town.
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“Totally unacceptable” and “sickening”. That’s how Iain Gray MSP and John Park MSP have described the revelations that the FM and Deputy FM have been auctioning lunches at Holyrood.
Morhamburn’s authoritative round-up of all Holyrood activity for the week ahead.
For full report (PDF) please click here – Morhamburn’s Forward Look