23 September 2008
Rhoda Grant today called on the SNP to match Gordon Brown’s pledge to extend free nursery places to all two-year-olds and ensure that every household with school age children has access to broadband.
Mrs Grant said:
“The SNP cannot let children fall behind in the Highlands and Islands or anywhere else for that matter.
“The contrast [...]
17 September 2008
Rhoda Grant, Highlands and Islands regional Labour MSP, is calling for additional funding for Northern health boards in the face of a junior doctor shortage when new working hours are introduced.
Over 500 junior doctors working in the North of Scotland must have their hours cut to meet the European directive limiting their [...]
16 September 2008
Transport Minister Stewart Stevenson has plunged the Lochboisdale to Mallaig ferry service in further confusion by using a Parliamentary debate last week to contradict a previous answer to a Parliamentary question from Peter Peacock MSP which made clear the Minister had cash available for the service.
Back in March the Minister told Peacock [...]
11 September 2008
The Scottish Government has ruled out any additional funding for NHS Highland to pay for the scrapping of car parking charges at the end of the year.
At question time today in Parliament Rhoda Grant, Highlands and Islands Regional Labour MSP, challenged Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon to ‘pay here’ if she really wants to [...]
10 September 2008
I welcome the committee’s report.
To say that ferries provide a lifeline to the communities they serve is to state the obvious.
Such communities face disadvantage due to their distance from markets and services.
Ferries bridge that gap, so we must provide a responsive service that is grounded in the community it serves.
We must deal differently [...]
8 September 2008
Rhoda Grant, Highlands and Islands MSP is questioning Scottish Government consistency following the confirmation that there will be no independent scrutiny of NHS Orkney’s plans to reorganise its GP cover.
Mrs Grant received a written response last week from the Minister for Public Health, Shona Robison, that the government had decided there was to [...]
