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Rhoda Grant

Regional Labour MSP for the Highlands and Islands

Posted on 26th September 201829th October 2018 by Rhoda Grant

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About

Born in Stornoway, brought up on the south shores of Loch Torridon in Wester Ross and now living in Inverness, Rhoda has experience of living in both rural and urban areas of the Highlands and Islands, giving her the knowledge to understand the various challenges faced by our communities.

Rhoda has worked in both the public and private sectors in the Highlands. Employed for a number of years with the public sector trade union Unison and The Highland Council, then as a Member of the Scottish Parliament between 1999 and 2003, then again from 2007.

Rhoda has held many Shadow Cabinet roles including Rural and Connectivity Cabinet Secretary, Shadow Women and Equalities Spokesperson, Shadow Health Minister, Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Shadow Minister for Economy, and Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Justice.  She is currently the Shadow Cabinet Secretary Minister for Land Reform, Islands and Chief Whip.

 

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Contact

rhoda.grant.msp@parliament.scot

Rhoda Grant, 3 Gordon Terrace, Inverness, IV2 3HD

Rhoda Grant, M1.11, Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, EH99 1SP

Telephone number: 0131 3485766

 

 

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Recent news

  • Warning signs to be installed at Telford Street and Shore Street roundabouts
  • Inverness Courier Wins Top National Award for its Dual The A9 Campaign
  • Royal National Mòd & Scottish Labour Gaelic Policy
  • Crofting Commission Succession Drop in Event
  • MSP asking questions on Friar’s Bridge traffic lights

Campaign – Maternity Services

  • MSP is eager to see Cabinet Secretary come to Moray and Highland
  • Moray Maternity Review
  • Highlands and Islands Labour MSP, Rhoda Grant, speaks in debate on maternity services highlighting Moray and Caithness
  • Rhoda Grant MSP supports CHAT petition on Community Participation
  • MSP gives views to Scottish Parliament committee on CHAT petition
  • MSP Rhoda Grant supports CHAT petition at Scottish Parliament

Responses to National Campaigns

  • Stage 3: Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill
  • NHS Pay
  • Hunting with Dogs
  • Conversion practice – cruel and undermines human right
  • Scottish universities and adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism
  • Domestic coal burning
  • Vaccinating children aged five to 11
  • Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Bill.
  • Ukraine
  • Covid 19 policies and effects on Children
  • Unite Taxi Campaign
  • Abortion Buffer Zones
  • Good Food Nation Bill – Food Commission for Scotland
  • NHS pay for the medical profession
  • Jackdaw Oilfield
  • Police Pay and Conditions
  • Abortion Services
  • Energy Treaty Motion
  • Future catching policy
  • Peatland Burning
  • National Care Service
  • Assisted Dying Bill
  • Teachers’ Pay
  • Leukaemia Care
  • Rosebank Oilfield
  • Deer Bill
  • Compulsory Microchipping Cats
  • Secondary Breast Cancer
  • Energy Charter Treaty
  • Support small farms and crofts in the Agricultural Bill
  • National Care Service bill and impact on social care staff
  • NHS Pay offer for nurses
  • Save Scotland’s Biodiversity
  • Fish Slaughtering
  • NUS Cost of Living Campaign
  • Funding gaps for Local Services
  • Proposed Culture Funding Cuts
  • Calling Time Campaign
  • Unpaid Carers and Cost of Living Crisis
  • UNITE’s Feed the Weans, Feed the Future
  • Rape Sentencing Guidelines
  • Deposit Returns Scheme
  • Higher Education Pay and Pensions
  • Diabetes Technology and Sarcoma Cancer
  • Minister for Independence
  • Industrial Action taken by College Lecturers
  • Crisis in NHS Dentistry
  • Capping Harm in Inshore Seas
  • Put food at the heart of climate efforts
  • NUS cost of transport
  • Free School Breakfast Provision
  • Disposable Vapes
  • Sewage Pollution
  • Cuts to the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service
  • Energy for All
  • UCU industrial action and marking boycott
  • A9 Dualling
  • Save Scottish Hospitality

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