Jamie Halcro Johnston MSP

Shadow Minister for Agriculture, Connectivity and Islands
Members of the Scottish Parliament for Highlands and Islands

Scottish Conservative & Unionist MSP for the Highlands and Islands and Shadow Minister for Business, Trade, Tourism and Enterprise
Follow Jamie Halcro-Johnston on Facebook at @JamieHalcroJohnstonConservative, on Twitter at @jhalcrojohnston and online at https://www.jamiehalcrojohnston.org.uk/ where you can see what he has been doing both in Holyrood and around the Region.

Jamie is a member of the Scottish Parliament Finance and Public Administration Committee and the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee

He is also involved in several Cross-Party Groups including:

Cross-Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on Crofting  -  Member

Cross-Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on India  -  Member

Cross-Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on Rural Policy  -  Member

Jamie has previously been a member of many Committees in the Scottish Parliament:

 

News

Call for support for pig farmers hit by Covid closure

The SNP Government has been urged to support pig farmers amid concerns that Scotland’s only major pig slaughter facility has had to shut after a staff Covid-19 outbreak. The Scottish Conservatives want ministers to look at setting up a similar scheme to one introduced in Northern Ireland which supp

MSP backs efforts to tackle livestock worrying

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has today backed plans to tackle the problem of livestock worrying. Mr Halcro Johnston, whose family farm in Orkney, gave his support in a debate on the proposed Dogs (Protection of Livestock) Bill in which he opened for the Scottish Conservative

SNP need to get cash to local businesses and do it quicker

Struggling local tourism businesses need to get promised financial support a lot quicker than is currently happening. That’s the call from Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston who said funding arrangements to help tourism businesses survive the Covid-19 pandemic could be made s

Drugs ruining lives across the Highlands and Islands

A Scottish Conservative MSP has warned that the impact of illegal drugs is being felt in communities across his region. Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston made his comments after First Minister Nicola Sturgeon admitted the drugs epidemic afflicting Scotland, which cost 1,264 lives