Helen McDade
Reform UK · Scotland
“I apologise for joining the debate slightly late. I am speaking mainly on behalf of Julie MacDougall, but I have an interest in the matter because both of my grandfathers were miners and died of lung disease, although I did not know either of them, because they died so long ago.”
Scottish Parliament25 June 2026Source ↗
“If a new hospital would be too expensive but the cabinet secretary is going to deliver the many things that she set out in her statement, can she assure us not only that capital funding will be included— obviously, that will be less than the £2.1 billion— but that resource funding is already being allocated in budgets now and in the futur…”
Scottish Parliament25 June 2026Source ↗
“We cannot spend £2.1 billion— nor, indeed, more—on one project and meet all our other commitments relating to the aspirations that we all share across Scotland.”
Scottish Parliament25 June 2026Source ↗
“He was a British Labour politician who served as MP for Glenrothes from 2005 until his death. He was first elected to the House of Commons in 2001, as the MP for Central Fife.”
Scottish Parliament25 June 2026Source ↗
“I thank the cabinet secretary for her statement. She says that this is a whole-system approach, that the old approach of having a large acute hospital is not now the answer and that there will be better services that bring together acute care, community services, diagnostics and digital provision.”
Scottish Parliament25 June 2026Source ↗
“Malcolm Offord: In relation to the much- vaunted jobs in Scotland, how does the minister respond to the fact that, among all the turbines around our country, there is not a single blade made in Scotland?”
Scottish Parliament24 June 2026Source ↗