Tag: UK government

The SNP, Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru and the Greens have tabled a vote of no confidence in the UK government.It follows an amendment from the opposition parties to Labour’s no confidence motion in the...

FOREIGN INVESTMENT UP 7% ACROSS SCOTLAND SCOTLAND SECOND MOST ATTRACTIVE PART OF UK FOR INVESTORS MSP Gordon Macdonald says that new stats from business consultancy EY have named Scotland as the second most attractive part of the...

SNP MSP FOR EDINBURGH PENTLANDS GORDON MACDONALD DEMANDS DEVOLUTION OF SOCIAL SECURITY POWERS Freedom of Information figures supplied by the Department for Work and Pensions have shown that Edinburgh has lost out on £4.1M because of Tory cuts...

The First Secretary of State and Minister for the Cabinet Office, Damian Green signed the City Region Deal for Edinburgh and South East Scotland on behalf of the UK Government today.We asked him for...

Tomorrow evening in George Square, Glasgow there will be a protest against the Family Cap and Rape Clause. More details on Facebook here.The protest will be live streamed if you cannot attend.Since 6 April...

The Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship programme is now open for applications.There are up to 50 positions available across Scotland. The Civil Service is calling on ambitious people from all backgrounds to apply...

Edinburgh Members of Parliament have been unanimous in their opposition to the Brexit bill otherwise known more formally as the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill. The bill was approved by Westminster on 1 February by a...

by Robert J Downes, King's College London The Sunday Times has caused a furore by reporting that a 2016 test of the UK’s submarine-borne strategic nuclear deterrent ended in failure. After the submarine HMS Vengeance returned...

First of all Prime Minister Theresa May explains that we have made a momentous decision and set ourselves in a new direction.She says in the video below: "This is the year we need to pull...

Later today the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will make a speech as one of the keynote speakers at the Institute of Directors Annual Convention asking that the UK Government steps in to prevent a...

The effects the UK-wide vote to leave the EU will have on Scotland’s energy sector will be discussed at the first of two summits today in Edinburgh.Minister for Business, Innovation and Energy Paul Wheelhouse...

On Wednesday the Queen's Speech brought a little pomp and circumstance to Westminster. Speaking ahead of the Conservative majority government’s first Queen’s Speech, Labour’s Shadow Scottish Secretary, Ian Murray MP, said: “Today’s Queen Speech will confirm...

The UK Government announced earlier in the week another 70 companies and businesses which have failed to comply with the minimum wage legislation which is the largest number yet. Today's announcement brings the total...

Energy Minister Fergus Ewing has accused the UK Government of showing ‘disrespect’ to coal communities across Scotland, as they fail to answer calls for £15m coal levies to be returned to Scotland – over...

Edinburgh East MP Sheila Gilmore has campaigned tirelessly alongside other local Labour politicians against the plans to reprivatise the East Coast line since these were announced in 2013, as they believe it would be...

The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) held their annual dinner tonight in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. They listened to a speech by the Secretary of State for Scotland, Alistair Carmichael who brought the business...

Steve Dayman MBE who founded a meningitis charity following the death of his baby son says that babies and children “are dying or suffering disabilities needlessly due to slow bureaucracy”.The UK has one of the...

Alistair Darling MP and Gordon Brown MP, the leader of the Better Together campaign and the former Prime Minister respectively, have lodged a motion at Westminster along with others demanding that a basic agreement...

At Prime Minister’s Questions today Mark Lazarowicz MP challenged the Prime Minister on his complete u-turn on green energy policy with the announcement last week that the Conservatives would axe support for new onshore...

A resumé of remarks and comments and pointers to articles about the Scottish Independence Referendum during the last week.People living in Scotland are invited to vote in the referendum on independence from the United Kingdom on...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are to introduce health assessments for Scots who are absent from work for over a month.The announcement follows the publication of DWP figures earlier today showing that around...

 The Scottish Government has claimed today that more than 40% of electricity consumed in Scotland is generated from renewablesNew figures show Scotland’s renewable electricity output was at record levels.The figures, which were released this...

Our Edinburgh MPs are making their respective ways back to Westminster tomorrow to take part in the debate over any action on Syria. When The Edinburgh Reporter met Sheila Gilmore MP the other day...

The UK Government has taken a decision to close the Remploy plants in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Motherwell, putting 111 jobs at risk.  Clare Adamson, a member of the Education and Culture Committee and...

Friends of the Earth Scotland welcomed The Court of Appeal's unanimous rejection today of the UK government's attempt to overturn a High Court ruling stating that its plans to rush through sudden cuts to solar tariff...

Protesters against the planned Leith Biomass Plant have turned their attention to government subsidies in the hope that they will be the key to preventing Forth Energy’s plans to build a power plant in...

The Coalition Government has this week launched the first stage of plans to give members of the public the right to comment on every aspect of new legislation, in a step towards...