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

MSP wants island fixed-link options explored

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has urged Scottish ministers to give serious consideration to fixed inter-island links. Spe

Jamie to fight Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch seat in 2021

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston will contest the Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch seat at the next Holyrood elections. At a meet

Highlands and Islands losing out on government investment

A Highlands and Islands MSP has expressed astonishment after it was revealed that the Scottish Government has failed to make a single award

MSP warns “pothole tax” would hit rural motorists

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has warned that proposals for a new tax to pay for the cost of repairing potholes risks disp

Jamie welcomes scrapping of hated “Named Person” plan

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has welcomed the scrapping of the SNP Government’s plan for a “Named Person” scheme. Mr Hal

COMMENT: Orkney wind turbine funding

Commenting on the results of the latest Contracts for Difference allocation announced by the UK Government today, Highlands and Islands MSP

Northern Isles Ferry Service Contract

Commenting on the announcement that the Northern Isles ferry service contract preferred bidder will be Serco, Highlands and Islands MSP Jami

Moray elderly suffering from hospital discharge delays

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has expressed concern that elderly people in Moray are being kept in hospital longer, on ave

Jamie backs RNLI

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has given strong backing to the RNLI following criticism in one national newspaper of the ch

MSP champions role of franchising

A Conservative MSP has highlighted the role franchising plays in regional economies in a speech to business owners this morning. Delivering

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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