Jamie Halcro-Johnston

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:

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

Sturgeon’s ‘desperate’ schools intervention risks more confusion

Nicola Sturgeon’s “desperate” response to the growing crisis over how schooling is delivered in Scotland risks causing even more confusio

Action needed to protect Moray jobs

Commenting on a forecast by the Scottish Government’s chief economist, Gary Gillespie, that 47% of jobs in Moray are in industries that a

Social Care must no longer be health’s poor neighbour

A key lesson of the coronavirus pandemic is that social care should no longer be treated as the poorer neighbour of the NHS.

COMMENT on NHS Orkney data breach

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston said:

Jamie raises with Health Secretary concerns over Moray care home testing delays

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has raised further concerns with the Scottish Government over how long it took for testin

Jamie urges support for “vital” Orkney ferry service

The Scottish Government has been urged to help a lifeline ferry service between Orkney and mainland Scotland which is being hit by a loss

Chancellor’s move saved hundreds of thousands of Scottish jobs

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has welcomed research confirming that the swift action by Chancellor of the Exchequer, Ri

Jamie questions First Minister on care home Covid-19 testing

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has raised concerns with the First Minister over the availability of Covid-19 testing for

SNP “unaware or ambivalent” to financial plight of local councils

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has hit out after Scotland’s Finance Secretary told councils to use reserves to pay for t

Jamie questions Transport Secretary over help for Northern Isles transport operators

MSP questions Scottish Government on help for Northern Isles transport operators

News

Decline in Teacher numbers in the Highlands and Islands continues

Tuesday, 17 December, 2019

Scottish Conservative MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has highlighted the continued decline in teacher numbers affecting the Highlands and Islands as revealed by Scottish Government figures.

Jamie Halcro Johnston challenges new Transport Secretary on Northern Isles’ RET commitment

Wednesday, 27 June, 2018

Highlands and Islands MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston has challenged the new Transport Secretary, Michael Matheson, to honour commitments made by the SNP on delivering cheaper fares on the Northern Isles ferry routes.

Edward Mountain

MSP, Highlands & Islands Region
Edward joined the Army after he left school and served for twelve years reaching the rank of Major. During his time in the Army he completed tours in Cyprus, Germany, Canada, Uganda, Spain and Eygpt.

Donald Cameron

MSP, Highlands & Islands Region
Originally from Achnacarry in Lochaber, Donald was educated at the University of Oxford, and graduated with a BA in Modern History (first class honours). He then worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC – a think-tank specialising in international relations.

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Contact Jamie

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