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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

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: Launch of survey - 'Home is calling...is housing stopping you?' We kicked off July with the launch of our housing survey 'Home is calling...is housing stopping you?' which I am running alongside Donald MacKinnon MSP. It is no secret that access to housing is a major issue in the islands, and the current way of measuring housing demand heavily bas

I have lodged Freedom of Information requests with the Scottish Government quango, NatureScot, to establish the how its board has been recommended to reject a licence for the annual guga expedition from Ness to take place. My understanding is that the recommendation being considered by the board on Monday (3rd August) had been "reverse-engineered" and that earlier drafts of advice from officials would have cleared the way for a licence to be granted on the same terms as la