Following sustained pressure from the Help Our B&Bs campaign, launched by Edward Mountain MSP, the Scottish Government today performed a u-turn on excluding businesses without business bank accounts from financial support.
The Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Fair Work and Culture today announced
UK Government spending to help Scotland fight the impact of coronavirus has exceeded £10 billion, new analysis has revealed.
Scottish Conservative shadow finance secretary Donald Cameron said: “The level of financial support from the UK Government is astonishing and unprecedented."
“And we sh
From 9am today, the new NHS Test and Trace service has launched across England - helping us to keep the virus under control while carefully and safely lifting the lockdown nationally.
A primary school project that attracted the attention of space agency NASA has been applauded by two local elected representatives.
Highlands and Islands MSP Donald Cameron and local councillor, Alastair Redman, have praised the project, undertaken by pupils at Port Ellen Primary School,
More than 16,000 businesses across Scotland are still waiting for SNP government support as they battle the impact of Covid-19.
Latest figures have revealed one in five firms working in retail, leisure and hospitality have still to have their application for assistance approved.
Scottish Conservat
The vast majority of the £4 billion spent in Scotland on fighting coronavirus has come from the UK Government, it has emerged.
The Scottish Government has revealed that more than £3.5 billion had arrived in emergency support through Barnett Consequential funds from Westminster.
Scottish Conservati
After weeks of SNP ministerial foot-dragging, denials, excuses and inaction, and faced by a relentless campaign by Scottish Conservative MSP Edward Mountain and his colleagues, the SNP government has finally agreed that a way will be found to enable emergency grants to be made to small bus
Highlands and Islands MSP Donald Cameron has reminded decision-makers in Holyrood that crofters and farmers have worked throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
Mr Cameron, the Scottish Conservative Shadow Finance Secretary, submitted a motion to the Scottish Parliament today (Wednesday 27th
