Orkney and Shetland MP, Alistair Carmichael, has this week delivered a statement in Parliament on the House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee report into UK-EU trade negotiations.
Orkney and Shetland MP, Alistair Carmichael, has this week in Parliament called on telecommunications companies receiving public investment to have a stronger duty to cooperate for wider rural mobile coverage.
Orkney and Shetland MP, Alistair Carmichael, has today warned that a new round of funding for the Future Farming Investment Scheme risked failing if the SNP did not admit failures in the original allocation last year.
Orkney and Shetland MP, Alistair Carmichael, has today called on ministers to secure a 24-month implementation period of any sanitary and phytosanitary deal with the EU, to protect UK farmers.
Orkney and Shetland MP, Alistair Carmichael, has spoken in Parliament this week on the risks to the Northern Isles of government plans to extend, from five to ten years, the period before immigrants can secure indefinite leave to remain in the UK.
Today, Monday 2nd February, tributes were made in the House of Commons to mark the death of Jim Wallace, Lord Wallace of Tankerness, who passed away last Thursday.
Orkney and Shetland MP, Alistair Carmichael, has today pressed the government to reassess the significance of the Northern Isles to UK security in light of growing military activity in the North Atlantic.
Orkney and Shetland MP, Alistair Carmichael, has today warned that the power cut in Caithness and Orkney last year, in which internet and mobile signal was lost across the affected area, was “a shot across the bows” for future telecoms resilience.
Orkney and Shetland MP, Alistair Carmichael, has warned the government that the “critical mass” of the fishing industry risks being lost due to spatial squeeze on fishing grounds.
Orkney and Shetland MP, Alistair Carmichael, has said that there is support for the Palestinian people “the length and breadth of this country”, after hosting the Ambassador of Palestine, Husam Zomlot in Parliament.
Shetland MSP and Scottish Liberal Democrat has supported Colostomy UK’s stoma-friendly public toilets campaign by writing to Tesco and Co-op.
Outside parliament last Tuesday morning, under the watchful gaze of a bank of TV cameras and journalists jostling for position, Tracy Churcher gave me a big hug, wished me luck before heading off with her daughter to catch a train home.
Liam McArthur has today expressed disappointment that an amendment to the Visitor Levy (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill which would require an exemption for anyone staying in overnight accommodation for the purposes of a medical appointment was defeated
Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland and Scottish Liberal Democrat, has raised the findings of the Shetland Women’s Aid “Voices of Women in Shetland” survey in the Scottish Parliament.
Beatrice Wishart and has slammed the SNP’s handling of the Northern Isles Ferry Service in a Scottish Parliament debate this week. Ms Wishart highlighted longstanding issues that the Scottish Government and Transport Scotland had not ‘seriously engaged’
Orkney's MSP Liam McArthur has today urged the Scottish Government to support local efforts to develop capacity for repairing and maintaining electric vehicles in Orkney.
I’m not sure you can make a mockery of something that is already intrinsically ludicrous, but the inaugural winner of the FIFA Peace Prize is having a good go.
Orkney's MSP Liam McArthur has today received confirmation that the Scottish Government will publish the findings of its cruise-ship passenger levy consultation next week.