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

Jamie welcomes tariff cuts

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has welcomed the announcement that US tariffs on Scottish shortbread are being axed. Mr Hal

Local pupils and parents “let down”, says Shadow Education Minister

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has hit out at the Scottish Government following news that over 120,000 Scottish pupils have

MSP warns over increase in cost of rural crime

A Highlands and Islands MSP has warned farmers and those living in the countryside to be vigilant after reports of a nationwide spike in the

MSP warns of delayed operations “ticking timebomb”

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has called on the Scottish Government to tackle a ‘ticking timebomb’ backlog of delayed oper

Douglas Ross' election as Scottish Conservative Leader

Welcoming the election of Douglas Ross MP as new leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston said:

STATEMENT: Moorfield Hotel fire

I’m sure the whole of Shetland will be grateful for the work of the emergency services, who have battled the fire through the night.

First Minister pressed on antibody testing for Covid

Nicola Sturgeon has been challenged on her government’s plans for antibody testing. Speaking in the response to the First Minister’s latest

Latest SNP U-turn highlights unfairness of higher education cap

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has welcomed an SNP U-turn on providing free tuition to students from the EU. The Shadow Ed

Broad welcome for job support for young people

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has said that the creation of a jobs scheme to help young people into secure employment is,

Minister pressed on air traffic control concerns

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has again raised with the Scottish Government concerns over Highlands and Islands Airports c

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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