All the latest news from the Highland Liberal Democrats.
The Scottish Government has today agreed to back a Scottish Liberal Democrat amendment in Holyrood calling for an independent review of maternity services in Caithness.
Almost 40,000 days of staff time for nurses and midwives have been lost across NHS Highland over the last five years due to a growing mental health crisis, the Highland Liberal Democrats have said.
The Scottish Government is being urged to urgently step in to find a replacement for lifeline services from Wick airport in response to Eastern Airways facing administration.
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.
Responding to the Scottish Government’s amendment to this evening’s debate which sought to water down a commitment to dual the A9 by 2035 and was defeated by the presiding officer’s casting vote, transport spokesperson Jamie Greene said:
Responding to new figures which show that life expectancy at birth in Scotland continues to be the lowest of all UK nations, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:
Caithness maternity campaigners are accusing the Scottish Government of pulling back from a commitment made in the Scottish Parliament to commission an independent review of maternity services in Caithness.
West of Scotland MSP Jamie Greene has today said the SNP have finally begin to move on ferry disruption funds as the Scottish Government bowed to pressure from the Scottish Liberal Democrats and affected communities to include more islands in the scheme.
The Liberal Democrats have won a historic vote in Parliament in favour of a UK-EU customs union.
Scottish Liberal Democrat Education Spokesperson Willie Rennie MSP today said the SNP Government has let down teachers after new figures revealed that the number of newly qualified teachers finding permanent employment has got even worse.
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