Jamie Halcro Johnston MSP

Shadow Minister for Agriculture, Connectivity and Islands

Members of the Scottish Parliament for Highlands and Islands

MSPs

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

Comment on homelessness deaths in Highlands

Following the publication of a report by Registers for Scotland on homelessness deaths across the country, Highland and Islands MSP Jamie Ha

Autumn statement a positive step forward

Autumn statement a positive step forward Speaking following the autumn statement announcement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer this aftern

Jamie seeks “honest answers” from ministers on A9

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has asked for Scottish Government ministers to come before MSPs and answer questions on the

Jamie backs new Domestic Abuse Register Bill

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has welcomed the introduction of a bill in the Scottish Parliament which would create a

Rail strikes threaten to leave Highlands “cut off”

Highlands and Islands MSP and shadow business and tourism minister Jamie Halcro Johnston has said that strike action by the RMT union later

Jamie questions SNP over Turkish ferries contract

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has raised concerns about the cost to taxpayers of two new CalMac ferries which have been or

Comment on First Minister’s Covid Update

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston said: “Covid cases are currently higher in Scotland, where masks are still mandatory, than i

UK Government blocks Russian oil tanker from visiting Orkney

Responding to today’s announcement by the UK Government that the Russian state-owned oil tanker NS Champion will be blocked from visiting Or

UK waters should be closed to Russian state-owned shipping

Commenting on the planned visit of the Russian state-owned oil tanker to Scapa Flow, Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston sa

Comment on proposed closure of TSB branch in Fort William

Commenting on the announcement by the TSB that it is proposing to close its branch in Fort William, Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro J

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Contact Jamie

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www.jamiehalcrojohnston.org.uk

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