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.
Responding to the announcement of a £5 million recovery fund following the Princes Street fire, Scottish Liberal Democrat MSP for Edinburgh Northern Sanne Dijkstra-Downie said:
Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Yi-pei Chou Turvey MSP has today said SNP ministers must ensure the right combination of officers and staff is in place as new figures show a fall in the number of full-time police officers.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today said that the country’s NHS is “crying out for help” as new figures revealed record long waits at A&E, some of the worst delays in discharges from hospital and thousands fewer operations th
Responding to today's exam results which saw minor improvements in pass rates but National 5s, Highers and Advance Highers all remaining lower than in 2016, Scottish Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Duncan Dunlop MSP said:
Scottish Liberal Democrat housing spokesperson Morven-May MacCallum MSP has today said that the SNP government must urgently scale up their response to the housing crisis, as new figures show that there were 44,500 empty homes across Scotland last year.
Scottish Liberal Democrat Edinburgh MSP Sanne Dijkstra-Downie has today written to First Minister to ask whether his government will deliver funding to help the council and businesses following the Prince Street fire, as she highlighted the Scottish Gover
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