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

Halcro Johnston responds to First Minister’s resignation

Following Nicola Sturgeon’s announcement that she will resign as First Minister of Scotland, Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcr

Halcro Johnston questions minister on ferries taskforce

Speaking after questioning the Deputy First Minister John Swinney on when minutes for Tuesday’s Orkney Ferries Task Force will be made publi

“No answers, just excuses” from SNP on local dentistry

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has hit out at the Scottish Government after questioning ministers on the pressure on dental

Fort William “bullying” incident

Responding to reports in today’s Daily Record of an incident involving an attack on a 13 year old boy in Fort William, Highlands and Islands

MSP highlights SNP “confusion” on whisky trade with India

Scottish Conservative trade spokesperson Jamie Halcro Johnston has called on the Scottish Government to back a UK-India trade deal which cou

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

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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