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Beatrice Wishart MSP

Wishart responds to Digital Exclusion Report

Responding to the digital exclusion report by the Auditor General and Accounts Commission, which warns that rural communities are being prevented from participating in the digital economy because superfast broadband coverage is just 79% compared to 99% in

22 Aug 2024
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Willie Rennie MSP

Rennie comments on investment bank’s £8m DRS loss

Responding to the news that the Scottish National Investment Bank made an £8m loss on the SNP and Green’s bottle deposit return scheme, a hit which made up the majority of the bank’s £14.6m losses in the last financial year, Scottish Liberal Democrat Will

21 Aug 2024
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Daniel O'Malley

Lib Dems respond to Transport Minister’s comments on GMS

Responding to Fiona Hyslop’s interview on the BBC’s Good Morning Scotland programme, in which she said that the Scottish Government was “prepared to go back” to scrapping peak rail fares in the future, after announcing yesterday that it would be reinstati

21 Aug 2024
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Daniel O'Malley

Scot Lib Dems comment on ScotRail fare hike

Responding to the news that the Scottish Government is reintroducing peak time ScotRail fares, with the price of the top ticket between Glasgow and Edinburgh now rising by 8.6% to £31.40, Scottish Liberal Democrat transport spokesperson Daniel O’Malley sa

20 Aug 2024
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Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP

Drug deaths more than double over a decade

Responding to new figures showing that there were 1,172 drug deaths in Scotland in 2023, an increase of 121 compared to 2022 and more than double what they were ten years ago, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said the Scottish Gover

20 Aug 2024
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Environment

We can't afford more climate failures

We need politicians who genuinely care – ready to put in the graft and capable of taking the political initiative. No-one can possibly still believe the UK’s Conservatives are up to this. I am completely convinced the Liberal Democrats are.

ED
15 Dec 2023
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