Member of the Scottish Parliament for Highlands and Islands

Rhoda Grant MSP - Member of the Scottish Parliament for Highlands and Islands

MG.06 The Scottish Parliament Edinburgh EH99 1SP
3 Gordon Terrace Inverness IV2 3HD
0131 3485766
https://www.rhodagrant.org.uk/
Rhoda.Grant.msp@parliament.scot

Rhoda Grant has been MSP for the Highlands and Islands since 1999.Prior to being elected to the Scottish Parliament she worked for the trade union Unison.Rhoda is a member of the following Scottish Parliament Committees:

Equalities and Human Rights Committee (Substitute Member)
Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee (Substitute Member)

MG.06 The Scottish Parliament Edinburgh EH99 1SP
3 Gordon Terrace Inverness IV2 3HD
0131 3485766
https://www.rhodagrant.org.uk/
Rhoda.Grant.msp@parliament.scot

Latest news from Rhoda Grant

Rhoda Grant introduces Right To Food Bill

Highlands and Islands MSP Rhoda Grant has lodged a Bill with the Scottish Parliament, which…

Moray Labour Front and Centre at Scottish Labour Conference

This year’s Scottish Labour conference was the biggest for 22 years, and Moray Labour was…

MSPs all agree that Banking services are vital to rural areas

Highlands and Islands Labour MSP Rhoda Grant yesterday held a Scottish Parliament debate on the…

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Latest from Rhoda in Parliament

Ferguson Marine (Chief Executive)

Scottish Parliament debates

We are rightly critical of the scandal that is costing the taxpayer £400 million, but the people who are paying the biggest price for the latest delay are the islanders who will endure yet...

Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Scottish Parliament debates

I will try to be as quick as possible. The member surely realises that those with larger areas of land are pushing smaller land managers out of getting any funding at all for environmental...

Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Scottish Parliament debates

Will the member take an intervention?

Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Scottish Parliament debates

Yes, I do, because they are a public good, not least in the work that they do in providing healthy, good-quality food to their local community. There are a number of anomalies with the bill, one...

Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Scottish Parliament debates

Indeed. I f we are looking at local production, we need to look at how to provide abattoirs and the other services that allow people to farm, produce and put the end product into the market,...

Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

Scottish Parliament debates

I thank the clerks and staff of the committee and all those who gave evidence during stage 1 consideration of the bill. This is rightly an enabling bill, because it needs to adapt to future...

Capital Spending Review

Scottish Parliament debates

The cabinet secretary will know that women in Caithness and Moray are currently travelling more than 100 miles to access maternity care in Raigmore hospital, in a unit that is not fit for...

Capital Spending Review

Scottish Parliament debates

7. To ask the Scottish Government when its review of capital spending will be complete. (S6O-03274)

Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3

Scottish Parliament debates

I, too, thank the clerks to the committee, all those who work for the committee and all those who gave evidence on the bill. I also thank the parliamentary staff who stayed late on Tuesday night...

GP Surgery Closures (Highlands and Islands)

Scottish Parliament debates

I, too, thank Douglas Ross for bringing this debate to the chamber, and I join him and the other speakers in commending the work of the save our surgeries group’s campaign. Its fight to...

Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3

Scottish Parliament debates

Amendment 110 will also ensure that the Scottish SPCA powers are reviewed, which I tried to ensure with a previous amendment of mine. We need to evaluate third sector organisations’...

Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3

Scottish Parliament debates

My amendment 27 would ensure that any changes to the muirburn season would be properly scrutinised. As I did on other amendments, I listened to the minister at stage 2, and I seek to amend the...

Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3

Scottish Parliament debates

I might be disappointed, but I am not totally surprised that the minister has rejected my amendments. His criticism of amendment 26, which mirrors the procedure for the deer management code of...

Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3

Scottish Parliament debates

Currently, the muirburn code does not have to be laid before Parliament. At stage 2, I lodged amendments that sought to enable the code to be scrutinised under the super-affirmative procedure,...

Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3

Scottish Parliament debates

My amendment 20 seeks to put in place a super-affirmative process for laying regulations to modify the purposes for muirburn under section 10(5). It will ensure that any regulations that modify...

Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3

Scottish Parliament debates

A mendment 17 would allow for a review of the SSPCA’s powers. I have several concerns about the powers that will be given to the SSPCA under the bill. I have heard clearly the frustration...

Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3

Scottish Parliament debates

The minister is quibbling over six days. The only difference between our suggested approaches is that the minister talks about a convention of laying instruments before Parliament, whereas I am...

Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3

Scottish Parliament debates

No, because a bird being on the red or amber list means that it is endangered. We cannot accept that an endangered bird, albeit a game bird, should be hunted at all.

Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3

Scottish Parliament debates

My amendment 14 seeks to create greater scrutiny of and consultation on the secondary legislation and activities that will flow from the bill. Much of the bill relates to enabling powers, so it...

Scotland’s Economy

Scottish Parliament debates

In order to have world-class public services, we need to pay for them. If we grow our economy, we can increase our tax take by having more people employed in good-quality, well-paid jobs. The...