Switching For Best Energy Deal

Energy UK has launched a new animation on its website to encourage customers to shop around for the best deal for them. This animation gives clear and concise information on how to switch supplier or tariff and encourages people to take action. Many people are concerned about switching their energy provider because they fear it [...]

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Fixed Odds Betting Terminals – Public Meeting

Airdrie and Shotts Labour Party is inviting members of the public to a meeting to discuss the dangers of Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs). Local Labour Councillor, David Fagan, has organized a public meeting in Chapelside Community Centre on Thursday 27th June at 7pm to discuss the dangers of the roulette and casino gaming machines in [...]

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St Andrew’s Primary Visit Parliament

I was delighted recently to welcome, staff and pupils for St Andrew’s Primary to Westminster. It was great to see the children so enthusiatic about visiting different parts of the Houses of Parliament. Young people often ask the most probing and difficult questions and I am pleased to say that St Andrew’s pupils are no [...]

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Dublin Chamber of Commerce visit Parliament

It was a great honour to host the Dublin Chamber of Commerce in the House of Commons recently. It was the first time they had been invited to Parliament and I felt it was important they had this opportunity. Whilst the event was lots of fun, with contributions from Jim Murphy MP and Willie Walsh, [...]

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Visit to Maxim

This morning I met with David Gebbie, the man responsible for attracting businesses to Maxim Office Park. Maxim is an impressive development which unfortunately came to completion just as the global recession began. This left it struggling to attract businesses to relocate within the development. However, I am pleased that things are beginning to turn [...]

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Pension Reforms Hit Women Hardest

On Saturday 18th of May I will be holding a public meeting to discuss the Government’s pension reform plans and the effect it will have on women nearing retirement age. Around 1,000 local women born between 6 April 1951 and 5 April 1953 will not be eligible for the proposed single tier pension since they [...]

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Glasgow Bedroom Tax Rally

I joined Cllrs David Fagan, Alan Clinch and Michael Ross and the thousands of people who marched in Glasgow and throughout the UK today against the Bedroom Tax. This is a disgraceful, badly thought-out policy and the Tory-led Government should do the right thing, admit that they got it completely wrong and abandon it immediately. [...]

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Red Nose Day in Parliament

Yesterday I put my chef’s hat on and got involved with a special charity bake-off in Parliament for Red Nose Day. Labour MPs showed off their baking skills with an assortment of cakes, brownies and flapjacks that were sold to other MPs, Peers and Labour Party staff, with the money raised from the sale of [...]

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Labour Launches Bill to Improve Bus Services

I am pleased that my colleague and former Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray MSP has announced his intention to bring a Private Members Bill to the Scottish Parliament to strengthen regulation of the bus industry. The Bill will give local authorities the power to “bundle” profitable and loss making (but socially desirable) routes together, to [...]

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Volunteers needed for 2014 Commonwealth games

At the 2012 Olympic Games I saw firsthand the impact the Gamesmakers had on making people from all over the UK and the World enjoy their Olympic experience last summer. It is now Scotland’s turn to shine and 15,000 volunteers are needed to help make the Commonwealth games a great success. This is a great [...]

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