Parliamentary Contributions

Oral Contributions:

• 13.10 – Manchester Terrorism Attack – I highlighted Jewish constituents’ concerns around the threshold for hate crime
• 13.10 – Security Update: Official Secrets Act Case – I asked the Minister to consider updating the Computer Misuse Act  to better distinguish between malicious actors and cyber-security professionals working in the public interest
• 14.10 – Energy Profits Levy: North-east Scotland – I raised constituents’ concerns around the Conservative Party’s decision to ditch the Climate Change Act
• 15.10 – Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill – I asked the Minister to clarify why the UK has been, comparatively, slow to embrace the transition to SAFs

Written Questions Answered:

• Environment Protection: Fines and Taxation – plans for environmental taxes to reinvest in green infrastructure
• Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties – impact of increasing alcohol duty
• Equality: Codes of Practice – if code of practice will be published before it is laid before Parliament
• Electric Vehicles: Charging Points – integrating electric vehicle charging infrastructure in new housing developments and public spaces
• Electric Vehicles: Charging Points – targeted incentives to encourage small business to install EV charging points
• Motability – incentives for Motability scheme to “buy British”
• Motability – cross departmental conversations to incentivise the Motability scheme to “buy British”
• Equality and Human Rights Commission: Codes of Practice – ensuring that the public and Parliament can scrutinise the EHRC’s updated code of practice
• Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties – plans to link alcohol duty increases to inflation
• Electric Vehicles: Charging Points – equitable access to public EV charging infrastructure in rural and low-income urban areas
• Electric Vehicles: Charging Points – rollout of rapid electric vehicle charging stations across the strategic road network in England
• Electric Vehicles: Charging Points – introducing national requirement for PAS1899 accessibility standard for EV charging stations

EDMs Published:

• 25th anniversary of David Irving v Penguin Books and Professor Deborah Lipstadt judgment

Media Mentions:

• 16.10 – My support for Hugh’s Law (legislation which would provide parents of seriously ill children with support from day one) was featured in the Edinburgh Reporter – Local MP supports the need for Hugh’s Law
• 16.10 – I published an op-ed in the Herald on the topic of the Online Safety Act and Nigel Farage’s political opportunism – Keep Online Safety Act and reject Farage as face of online freedom
• 17.10 – My campaigning, alongside Ian Murray MP, to ban firework sales in supermarkets in Edinburgh made headlines in Deadline News – Edinburgh supermarkets pledge not to sell fireworks after MP’s letter