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

Moray dementia patients risk losing out on promised support

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has expressed disappointment that fewer than a fifth of NHS Grampian patients diagnosed with

Budget “remains a terrible deal for Moray” says MSP

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has responded to today’s Scottish budget deal between the SNP and the Scottish Greens. The

Halcro Johnston uses FOI legislation to get answers from “feart” SNP on Moray Council cuts

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston wants answers from the Scottish Government and Moray Council about discussions over the coun

Halcro Johnston wants Government action on “cost and bureaucracy” of brown tourist signs

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has questioned the Scottish Government on the availability of brown tourist attraction signs

Visit to Morayvia

Halcro Johnston visit to Morayvia Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston visited local visitor attraction Morayvia at the weekend.

Jamie responds to “brass neck” of SNP MSP over Moray cuts

Responding to Richard Lochhead MSP’s comments today calling on the UK Government to revise its approach to digital connectivity, Jamie Halcr

Highlands and Islands tops windfarm planning tables

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has highlighted figures showing that over half of current windfarm applications before the S

Jamie seeks local views ahead of Vodafone meeting

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has invited local residents to get in touch with him with issues around mobile connectivity

Have your say on 20mph speed limits

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has called on residents and communities across the region to have their say on introducing 2

HALCRO JOHNSTON SEEKS CLARITY ON ISLANDS FERRY TENDERING

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnson has called for clarity from the Scottish Government over the future of ferry tendering for th

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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