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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. IN THE CONSTITUENCY: Haemochromatosis Events in Uist & Barra June kicked off with a series of community information events on the Viking Genes project - a lifesaving genetic screening programme run by Professor Jim Flett Wilson of Edinburgh University. TThe Viking Genes 'Hebrides Study' is highlighting the high prevalence of hereditary haemochromatosis in the Western

Myself and Donald MacKinnon are launching a big summer housing survey to measure demand for housing from islanders at home and away. We have set up a joint campaign to find new ways for young people, returnees and businesses to signal their demands for housing in the Western Isles. It is no secret that access to housing is a major issue in the islands, and the current way of measuring housing demand heavily based on numbers on waiting lists is not accurately conveying deman

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