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Welcome to my monthly round up of my work both in parliament and in the constituency of Na h-Eileanan an Iar. Visits in Stornoway Stornoway Masjid Along with Donald MacKinnon MSP I visited the Stornoway Masjid with Police Officer Neil Taylor following hateful misinformation spread on social media to give assurances on community engagement and support. Keith Morrison - Stornoway Music Development Centre Wee Studio director Keith Morrison has opened a new rehearsal space in Sto

Andy Burnham has backed island calls for community energy companies to be given priority access to the national grid. Speaking in the Commons for the first time the new Prime Minister said he supported my efforts to get community windfarms first in the queue for connections to the grid. Since being elected in 2024, I have been pressing for reform of grid connections and for community-owned companies to be pushed up the queue for connections to the 1.8GW Minch interconn

John Swinney owes the £7 million in compensation for the ferry fiasco which continues to blight businesses the length of the Western Isles. The SNP First Minister has fallen short of his £10 million election promise to support for islands affected by his government’s catastrophic handing of the CalMac ferry crisis. I commented on the reopening of the Island Business Resilience Fund with only £3 million committed this year, saying, the islands had been “sold short”. Made withi