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Torcuil Crichton MP on a visit to Stornoway Primary last year. Thanks to schools in the constituency who wrote in, the UK Parliament has made some changes to its Educational Visit booking system. Island schools let me know of their difficulties in booking an educational visit to the UK Parliament. They cited issues with the booking system, where slots were all filled within minutes of visiting the Parliament Educational Visit website, the short lead time between booking a vis

I have renewed calls for Bank of Scotland to pause plans to close its Balivanich branch after a new survey reveals the importance of cash to the Highlands and Islands economy. This comes in the wake of new research published in the Herald, showing that fewer than 5% of people living in the Highlands and Islands support a cashless society. Commenting on the poll, I said: These findings echo my own views and those of my constituents: our local community needs access to

Community-owned windfarms should be given priority connection to the national grid and communities entitled to take a 20 per cent stake in any onshore or offshore developments in their area, a powerful Commons committee has demanded. I welcome a report from the Commons Energy Committee where I am a sitting member, which has backed my calls for local communities have a far greater role in the renewable energy transition. The report provides a blueprint to transform communi