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Jamie Halcro Johnston MSP

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Shadow Minister for Agriculture, Connectivity and Islands
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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:

  • https://www.parliament.scot/msps/current-and-previous-msps/jamie-halcro-johnston

 

News

Call for support for pig farmers hit by Covid closure

Monday, 25 January, 2021
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

Thursday, 21 January, 2021
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

Thursday, 21 January, 2021
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

Thursday, 21 January, 2021
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

Decline in Teacher numbers in the Highlands and Islands continues

Tuesday, 17 December, 2019
Scottish Conservative MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has highlighted the continued decline in teacher numbers affecting the Highlands and Islands as revealed by Scottish Government figures.
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Jamie Halcro Johnston challenges new Transport Secretary on Northern Isles’ RET commitment

Wednesday, 27 June, 2018
Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has challenged the new Transport Secretary, Michael Matheson, to honour commitments made by the SNP on delivering cheaper fares on the Northern Isles ferry routes. Former SNP Transport Minister Humza Yousaf had repeatedly promised that fares to and fr

Halcro Johnston: Corran Ferry Crisis has shaken the trust of local communities in Highland Council and Scottish Government

Speaking following the latest suspension of the Corran Ferry, Highlands and Islands MSP, and Deputy Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Rural

Fisheries Tracking Consultation: Ministers must learn from their previous shambolic approaches, says Halcro Johnston

Commenting on new Scottish Government plans for monitoring Scotland's fishing fleet, Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston sa

Halcro Johnston cynical on latest SNP A9 dualling claims

Commenting on the SNP government's latest A9 dualling claims, Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston, who has been campaigning

Halcro Johnston on the closure of Fort William Virgin Money Branch

Highlands and Islands MSP and Deputy Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Islands, Jamie Halcro Johnston said: "It is worryin

Halcro Johnston backs Better Bones campaign

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has backed the Royal Osteoporosis Society (ROS) and Sunday Express campaign for better

Halcro Johnston on Orkney Islands autonomy motion: "more about generating media headlines"

Commenting on the motion being debated by Orkney Islands Council tomorrow (Tuesday) on more autonomy for the islands, Highlands and Isl

“Screeching U-turn” needed on Scottish Government plans to increase local tax bills by a quarter

Commenting on news that the SNP/Green Scottish Government in Edinburgh is consulting with councils on hiking up council tax by almost a

Winnie Ewing

Commenting on the death of former Highlands and Islands MSP and MEP, Winnie Ewing, Scottish Conservative MSP for the region, Jamie Halc

Local SNP MSPs backing Lorna Slater “a slap in the face to businesses”

Commenting after yesterday’s Scottish Parliament vote of no confidence in which nearly all Highlands and Islands SNP MSPs&nbs

Halcro Johnston backs no-confidence motion against DRS minister Lorna Slater

Commenting after giving his support to a no-confidence motion against Circular Economy Minister Lorna Slater MSP, Highlands and Islands MSP

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About Jamie

Jamie was brought up in Orkney, where his family have lived and farmed for generations.

He graduated from the University of Exeter before working for the Financial Times in London and then moving into recruitment. Before 2007, he worked as an adviser at the Scottish Parliament to various Scottish Conservative MSPs and then moved to Holyrood magazine for almost ten years before taking a seat in Parliament on the Highlands and Islands list in June 2017.

Jamie has been an active campaigner including running the A9 dualling campaign, calling for improvements to transport and broadband infrastructure in the Highlands and Islands, and being active in Better Together Orkney during the Scottish independence referendum, helping to secure the highest percentage No vote in Scotland.

Jamie previously stood for the Scottish Parliament in Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber in 2007 and then the Orkney constituency in 2011 and 2016, before competing for the Orkney and Shetland seat in the UK general election in 2017.  He was successfully re-elected as an MSP on the Highlands and Islands Regional List in 2021.

Jamie's recent contributions in the Scottish Parliament 

https://www.jamiehalcrojohnston.org.uk/scottish-parliament

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