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Former Scottish National Party MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross

Entered the Scottish Parliament on 1 May 2003 — Election

Left the Scottish Parliament on 23 March 2016 — Election

Also represented Highlands and Islands

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Recent appearances

• Scottish Parliament: Land Settlement (Scotland) Act 1919 23 Mar 2016

  Will the First Minister ensure that the current review of the Scottish planning system helps and does not hinder the much more diverse pattern of land ownership that will assuredly flow from the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 and the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill?

• Scottish Parliament: Local Control 22 Mar 2016

  For my final speech as the member of the Scottish Parliament for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross since 2011, I will explore bringing more local control to the people whom I have had the immense privilege to represent. I will reflect on how the Highlands and Islands region, which I represented from 2003 to 2011, and my huge mainland constituency, which is the size of Northern Ireland, have...

• Scottish Parliament: Land Reform (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3 16 Mar 2016

  The negative influence of land agents is far wider than the few exceptions that Claudia Beamish mentioned, and a statutory code of practice for land agents would be a very good thing indeed. It would probably answer the concerns of many people around the country. Those concerns were expressed in the evidence that the committee took on the island of Islay, for example, where a tenant farmer...

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