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Jamie Halcro-Johnston

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MSP, Highlands & Islands Region
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, and see all his planned Constituency Surgery dates and locations.

Jamie is a member of the following Committees in the Scottish Parliament:

  • Economy, Jobs and Fair Work Committee (Member)
  • Finance and Constitution Committee (Substitute Member)
  • Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee (Member)

Jamie is a member of the following Cross-Party Groups in the Scottish Parliament:

  • Cross-Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on Colleges and Universities (Member)
  • Cross-Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on Fishing (Member)
  • Cross-Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on Scotch Whisky (Member)
  • Cross-Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on Skills (Member)

Jamie praises Moray student’s musical charity performance

A virtual orchestral performance of the classic Christmas carol Silent Night organised by a young Moray music student has won praise at t

Tourism businesses need help now

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston is urging the Scottish Government to ensure that the region’s beleaguered tourism sector

Wedgetail surveillance fleet to be based at RAF Lossiemouth

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston said: 

Jamie welcomes Fisheries Act

The Scottish Conservatives’ newly appointed Shadow Cabinet Secretary for the Rural Economy, Jamie Halcro Johnston, has joined Scottish fi

MSP questions job support for fragile Highlands and Islands communities

The impact of Covid-19 on jobs and businesses in the Highlands and Islands was raised at Holyrood today by regional MSP Jamie Halcro John

Jamie to press Scottish Government on bursaries for student paramedics

Shadow Education Minister Jamie Halcro Johnston is to press the Scottish Government to urgently review its policy on bursaries for studen

MSP backs “Love Local” campaign to support our High Streets

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has backed the “Scotland Loves Local” campaign which encourages people to use their local

Concerns raised at Holyrood over “postcode lottery” in support for those in custody

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has questioned the Scottish Government on what he called was a “postcode lottery” in how

MSP highlights World Mental Health Day

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has said this weekend’s World Mental Health Day is an opportunity for people to take stoc

MSP marks World Hospice and Palliative Care Day

The work of people supporting those with life-limiting conditions is being remembered on World Hospice and Palliative Care Day this Satur

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News

Rural Scotland let down again by SNP

Thursday, 25 February, 2021

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has accused the SNP of letting down rural Scotland as MSPs debated the Scottish Budget.

Further comment on Covid  “Routemap” statement by Nicola Sturgeon

Tuesday, 23 February, 2021

Highlands and Islands Scottish Conservative MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston said:

“This latest announcement from Nicola Sturgeon is little more than a holding statement telling us to come back again in three weeks for more information."

MSP calls for an end to “divisive politics” as Kennedy documentary airs

Tuesday, 23 February, 2021

A Highlands and Islands politician has said the type of vicious campaign fought to unseat the late Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy from his Ross, Skye and Lochaber seat in 2015 must be made a thing of the past.

Purchase of Northern Isles boats a blow to SNP targets on low-emission ferries

Monday, 22 February, 2021

The Scottish Government has been forced to admit that a decision to purchase the boats serving the Northern Isles routes has put them even further behind one of their own key green targets.

​​​​​​​Welcome for PM’s pledge to help poorer countries with Covid vaccines

Monday, 22 February, 2021

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has welcomed the Prime Minister’s commitment to helping poorer countries with much-needed supplies of Covid vaccines.

Comment on announcement that short-term let regulations are to be withdrawn until after the election

Thursday, 18 February, 2021

Scottish Conservative Shadow Rural Economy and Tourism Spokesman Jamie Halcro Johnston said: “While I’m pleased that the SNP Government has finally responded to the intense lobbying from the tourism sector and the Scottish Conservatives and withdrawn their damaging plans, I’m disappointed they’re

Concerns raised with FM over increases in suicidal thoughts amongst young men

Tuesday, 16 February, 2021

A Highlands and Islands MSP has described as “extremely alarming” the findings of a new report that shows a third of young men in Scotland have contemplated suicide.

MSP praises farmers and rural businesses for winter weather efforts

Tuesday, 16 February, 2021

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has thanked farmers and other rural businesses for their efforts during the recent wintry conditions.

SNP must back local newspapers after losing vote in Scottish Parliament

Thursday, 11 February, 2021

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has said that the Scottish Government must do more to support local newspapers after the SNP lost a vote in the Scottish Parliament on their decision to scrap business rates relief for newspapers.

Call for SNP to U-turn on newspaper rates relief

Tuesday, 9 February, 2021

Speaking ahead of tomorrow’s Scottish Conservative debate in Holyrood on newspaper rates relief, Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has called on SNP ministers to reverse their decision to scrap business rates relief for the sector or risk the survival of some local titles.

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M2.18 The Scottish Parliament
Edinburgh EH99 1SP 

0131 348 6140

jamie.halcrojohnston.msp@parliament.scot
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.

Jamie's recent contributions in the Scottish Parliament 

https://www.jamiehalcrojohnston.org.uk/scottish-parliament

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