About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Dave Doogan) represents you, and all of the people who live in Angus and Perthshire Glens, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Scottish National Party MP for Angus and Perthshire Glens

Entered the House of Commons on 13 December 2019 — General election

Also represented Angus

Social Media

• @davedooganmp.bsky.social
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Ministry of Defence
• Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
• Treasury
• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Members: Correspondence
• European Fighter Aircraft
• Alternative Fuel Payments
• Military Bases: Scotland
• Children: Maintenance

Currently held offices

• Member, Scottish Affairs Committee (since 16 Jun 2025)
• Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Defence) (since 10 Jul 2024)
• Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Economy) (since 10 Jul 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Energy Security and Net Zero) (10 Jul 2024 to 16 Jun 2025)
• Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Energy Security and Net Zero) ( 4 Sep 2023 to 30 May 2024)
• Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Defence) (12 Dec 2022 to 4 Sep 2023)
• Member, Committees on Arms Export Controls (26 Jan 2022 to 12 Sep 2023)
• Member, Defence Committee ( 5 Jan 2022 to 12 Sep 2023)
• Member, Defence Sub-Committee ( 5 Jan 2022 to 12 Sep 2023)
• Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Defence Procurement) ( 5 Jan 2022 to 12 Dec 2022)
• Member, Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill Committee ( 3 Nov 2021 to 18 Nov 2021)
• Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Manufacturing) (16 Oct 2020 to 5 Jan 2022)
• Member, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee ( 2 Mar 2020 to 5 Jan 2022)
• Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Agriculture and Rural Affairs) ( 7 Jan 2020 to 5 Jan 2022)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

SNP MPs only attend sittings where the legislation pertains to Scotland.

• Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill Committee (2 out of 6)
• Agriculture Bill Committee (6 out of 12)

Recent appearances

• Taxes 15 Jul 2025

  The first line of the Tories’ motion gets to the word “manifesto”, and I accept their premise that that is what this is about—it is about the commitment “not to increase taxes on working people, and not to increase National Insurance or the basic, higher or additional rates of Income Tax”. I do not think that is a tall order. The next item on the list, however, is VAT. Never mind...

• Taxes 15 Jul 2025

  That is a welcome and comprehensive round-up of some of the broader issues on this, but it speaks to the fiscal innumeracy that says, “There is no cost to any of this; we can just help ourselves to that and it won’t have any impact.” As the right hon. Member for Wetherby and Easingwold (Sir Alec Shelbrooke) pointed out, if we speak to any rural plant sales or dealership, and they will...

• Taxes 15 Jul 2025

  Yes, it had to come, and I am relieved that there is a cleavage. Where I diverge with them is on a wealth tax. I see that we are in a state—the UK is not a country—where poverty levels among our children are rising in every country in the UK except Scotland. In Scotland, it costs us £150 million a year—it will be £200 million by the end of the decade—to mitigate Westminster’s...

More of Dave Doogan’s recent appearances

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