Unemployment Falls As Scottish Economy Outstrips UK
Unemployment has fallen to a record-low in Scotland, as latest figures show Scottish economic growth outperforming the rest of the UK....
Tories Vote To Force EU Nationals To Pay For Help To Stay
Edinburgh Council Votes To Pay EU Nationals Application Appointment Fee SNP Leader of Edinburgh City Council, successfully passed a...
SNP Rates Cap Saves Edinburgh Businesses £4.5 Million
New figures released by the Scottish Government estimate that businesses across The City of Edinburgh will save £4.5M thanks to an SNP...
Money Back On Empty Cans and Bottles Through in Oxgangs
Photo: Gordon Macdonald MSP, Joanna Cherry MP and pupils from Pentland Primary School using the Reverse Vending Machine at the Premier...
Firms in Edinburgh Benefit from £24 Million in Business Rates Support
The Scottish Government’s Small Business Bonus Scheme provided £24M of support for businesses across Edinburgh in 2017/18 – an 38% rise...
Edinburgh Workers at Serious Risk in Event of No Deal Brexit
The Scottish Government has warned that Edinburgh will face economic shock and possible job losses in the fallout from a no-deal Brexit....
SNP MSP Slams Tories for "Sneaking Out" Changes to Pension Credit
SNP MSP Gordon Macdonald has slammed the Tory government at FMQs this week, for ‘sneaking out’ changes to state pensions, which could...
Gordon's Edinburgh Evening News column: “A budget for Edinburgh is a budget for Scotland.”
Amid the extraordinary chaos of Westminster and Brexit, you could be forgiven for forgetting all about the Scottish Government’s Budget...
SNP MSP Calls On MoD To Do More To Help Homeless Veterans in Scotland
Gordon MacDonald MSP for Edinburgh Pentlands has written to Defence Secretary, Gavin Williamson MP, after shock figures revealed the...
MSP Calls ON Scottish Parliament to Donate Old Computers to Africa
SNP MSP Gordon Macdonald has called on The Scottish Parliament Corporate Body to partner with the Turing Trust to donate old computers...
