After
#ChallengePoverty
Week, I'm backing
@SLIC1991
's campaign to promote the work local libraries do to break down poverty-related inequality.
With so much support on offer, I’d urge you to make use of these innovative and inspiring services
#CPW24
🏴 Scotland’s unemployment rate of 3.9% is now lower than the UK average of 4%,
@ONS
figures show.
📣 DFM
@_KateForbes
: “Today’s figures show that payrolled employment in Scotland is at near record levels.”
👉 Read more here:
🥀 Keir Starmer’s Council of Nations and Regions will host 11 English Mayors but no local leaders from Scotland.
📢 Keir Starmer has made his view clear to the people of Scotland: Scottish communities will never come first under Westminster control.
Today marks
#WorldMentalHealthDay
, let's commit to breaking the stigma and build a society where seeking help is seen as a strength.
Lets keep pushing for a future where everyone has access to the support they need.
It's World Mental Health Day! 🌍💜
It’s a day to talk about mental health and show everyone that mental health matters.
We all deserve good mental health. 💜
People are being invited to provide feedback on updated proposals to promote safe active travel in Musselburgh.
There are different ways to have your say and drop-in sessions will be held later this month.
Find out more:
🗣Last week I asked the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government what discussions she has had with local authorities regarding the financial impact of national policies.
👇You can watch the full exchange below
💼 We’re investing an additional £80m in Scotland’s housing sector to bring empty properties back into use as affordable housing.
🏘️ We’re building on the success of our National Acquisition Programme, which delivered nearly 1,500 affordable homes in 2023-24.
We're proposing to change some of the polling places we intend to use in future elections to make sure they are accessible to everyone. Is yours on the list? Find out more and give your views at
ScotRail's full timetable will be restored from Monday, 7 October 2024.
Everyone at ScotRail is focused on delivering a safe, reliable, and green service for our customers and the return to a normal timetable is something we know our customers have been waiting patiently for.
📢 Since 2007, your SNP government has delivered 133,000 affordable homes.
🏘️ Today, we’ve announced a further £22 million to increase investment in affordable housing and deliver more housing.
🏫While Scottish students benefit from the SNP Governments unique social contract, Labour in England will increase tuition fees for hard working students.
Don't let them bring them back in Scotland!
A great day on Saturday celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Scottish Parliament.
🎺I was pleased to be joined by local composer Alan Fernie and his wife as my nominated local hero for the constituency.
🤔 Ian Murray, Labour's Scottish Secretary, says it's not true that he has a £150m "war chest" to tackle poverty in Scotland.
📣 He claimed a journalist "made that figure up" but "everyone ran with it".
🔎 Who shared that £150m figure during the election? Ian Murray.
🥀Labour cuts to the universal Winter Fuel Payment will disproportionately impact pensioners in Scotland, due to our colder winters.
I was disappointed to see Scottish Labour MPs fail to stand up for their constituents.
👇I sent the below to the new Midlothian Labour MP.
A taste of Dalkeith ⚽️
Watch Dalkeith Thistle take on Broxburn Athletic in the Scottish Cup, tonight from 19:30 BST on BBC Scotland and BBC iPlayer 🏆📺
#BBCFootball