Scot Gov Announces Ambitious Budget With Record Health Funding
MSP for Edinburgh Pentlands has welcomed the Scottish Government’s ambitious draft budget - which includes record funding of £16 billion for our health and social care service - and urged MSPs from all parties to support it. Yesterday, Finance Secretary Kate Forbes announced her budget, which focuses on three key guiding principles - a national mission for new, good, and green jobs; promotion of lifelong health and wellbeing and driving equality and helping our young people t
MSP Gordon Macdonald Urges Constituents To Apply For Self-Isolation Grant
MSP for Edinburgh Pentlands, Gordon MacDonald, has welcomed the announcement that the Scottish Government’s self-isolation payment will not be impacted, following an update that anyone required to self-isolate will need to do so for 10 days, rather than 14 days. The £500 grant - which will not be reduced as a result of the updated clinical guidance - is for those who will face financial hardship due to being asked to self-isolate and will be targeted at people who are in rece
Tories Putting Scotland's Reputation At Risk With "Ridiculous Barriers"
The SNP has warned that the Tories are putting Scotland’s international reputation at risk with the "'narrow-minded" decision to leave musicians and performers off the list of workers permitted to enter the EU without a visa under Boris Johnson’s hard Brexit agreement. Gordon MacDonald MSP, who has repeatedly warned of the financial and logistical threats that Brexit poses to the future of cultural events like the Edinburgh Festivals, has said this omission could “inflict ser
