Westminster - Ian Murray MP

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Keep Every Climate Promise

This month many constituents got in touch about climate change and the enormous crisis we…

Afghanistan Update

Please find below my latest update to constituents on the situation in Afghanistan. Please be…

Mask wearing on public transport

Covid-19 public health restrictions are the responsibility of the Scottish Government and people are still…

International aid budget and vote

In their 2019 manifesto, the Conservative Party promised to continue spending 0.7% of gross national…

Update: WASPI Campaign

One of the biggest campaigns in recent years has been run by the WASPI women,…

Marine Protected Areas

Research by Greenpeace found supertrawlers spent almost 3,000 hours fishing within UK MPAs in 2019.…

Brexit and EU Nationals

Many EU nationals in our area and across the country have endured incredible stress and…

Black Lives Matter Update

Following the anniversary if the tragic murder of George Floyd I updated constituents on the…

Israel Palestine

My Update sent to constituents on the recent events in Israel Palestine. Please note this…

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Pregnancy: Employment

Department of Health and Social Care

Ian Murray received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department's guidance that employers should allow pregnant women past 28 weeks gestation to work from home or be suspended on...

Scottish Government

Scotland Office

Ian Murray received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what representations he has received from Scottish Government Ministers by (a) email, (b) letter and (c) other means of communication on matters which...

Scottish Government: Expenditure

Scotland Office

Ian Murray received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of funding from the public purse spent by the Scottish Government on reserved areas, including (a)...

Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Correspondence

Department for Transport

Ian Murray received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the backlog of correspondence at the Driver and Vehicle Licencing Agency on correspondents;...

Strength of the Union

Ian Murray made a speech in the House of Commons

There is no money going into social care, but we will leave that for a different time. Last week, Labour’s shadow team visited Orkney and its European Marine Energy Centre. It has...

Strength of the Union

Ian Murray made a speech in the House of Commons

May I join the Secretary of State in congratulating our Olympians and Paralympians on their wonderful medals haul in Tokyo? May I also congratulate the Scottish football team on a marvellous...

Asylum: Glasgow

Ian Murray received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who took the recent decision to stop cash payments for asylum seekers placed in hotels in Glasgow.

UK Shared Prosperity Fund: Research

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Ian Murray received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will ensure that there is an element within the UK Shared Prosperity Fund reserved for research organisations...

UK Shared Prosperity Fund: Research

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Ian Murray received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he has taken within the UK Shared Prosperity Fund to replicate the specific functions performed by the...

UK Shared Prosperity Fund: Water Power

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Ian Murray received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will take steps to ensure that the research and development of marine energy technologies, which has been...

Renewable Energy: Finance

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Ian Murray received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what his Department’s latest estimate is of the savings that will be delivered for consumers from the successful...

Renewable Energy: Finance

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Ian Murray received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how his Department plans to use its ability to set a flexible cap in each pot in the fourth allocation round for...

Renewable Energy: Finance

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Ian Murray received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to publish the draft budget notice for the fourth allocation round for Contracts for Difference.

Renewable Energy: Finance

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Ian Murray received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will publish the evidential basis for the proposed 12GW overall capacity cap in the fourth allocation round for...

Renewable Energy: Finance

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Ian Murray received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate his Department has made of the potentially eligible capacity in the fourth allocation round for Contracts...

Income Tax: Scotland

Ian Murray received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what data is shared with HMRC by NHS Scotland, Scottish health boards or agencies to assist in the implementation of the Scottish rate of income tax.

EU Settlement Scheme

Commons debates

No, it was not devolved; the UK Government implemented that policy at the insistence of the Scottish First Minister who brought it forward. In 2019, the Prime Minister famously promised to get...

EU Settlement Scheme

Commons debates

Well, we do not know what the SNP envisages, because we do not know the proposals; it is just a list of words. Unfortunately, this debate will turn to this issue—the Minister spent some...

EU Settlement Scheme

Commons debates

It is true of what happens in Canada.

EU Settlement Scheme

Commons debates

Some years ago I did a little research into the differential of immigration policies. There is great stress in the Canadian system because, as the Minister said, many people land in Quebec, stay...