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Colin Smyth
Services across the region have been in decline for more than a decade, and so have local government budgets. An independent report that went to this month’s meet...
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4. Colin Smyth (South Scotland) (Lab)
To ask the Scottish Government what action it can take to support the reversal of the reported reduction of bus services in Dumfries and Galloway. (S6O-03279)
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Colin Smyth (South Scotland) (Lab)
This week, South Lanarkshire health and social care partnership voted to close two care homes, including McClymont House in Lanark, to help to plug a £33 million funding shortfall. The closu...
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Colin Smyth
The bill is an opportunity to better distribute the support that we provide. Rhoda Grant and Richard Leonard highlighted that too much of our current support goes to too few. We need to look...
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Colin Smyth
I will continue, and I hope that I might answer some of his points.
Th...
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Colin Smyth
If I have time, I will certainly take Mr Fairlie’s question.
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Colin Smyth
Mr Fairlie is asking us to write a manifesto for the next election, but Labour in government has consistently committed to providing the funding that our agriculture sector needs. Rhoda Gran...
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Colin Smyth (South Scotland) (Lab)
The debate has shown that people get that we cannot dot every i and cross every t of a rural support scheme in primary legislation. We need flexibility to ensure that changes can be made whe...
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Colin Smyth (South Scotland) (Lab)
I thank my colleague Foysol Choudhury for lodging the motion, which, as we have heard this evening, has given a voice in Parliam...
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Colin Smyth (South Scotland) (Lab)
I thank climate activist Laura Young and others, including the Daily Record, for their successful cam...
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