Working for You

On Monday morning I often have meetings with constituents or organisations in the constituency or elsewhere in Scotland and then travel to the UK Parliament in London for parliamentary business, usually returning on the last flight to Edinburgh on Thursday evening. Fridays and often the weekend are taken up with meetings, constituents consultation sessions and dealing with correspondence. The emails just go on forever....

Speaking In The Commons

Speaking in The Commons is one of the ways I try to get a FAIR DEAL for the people of Linlithgow and East Falkirk. TV covers some Commons debates and most Question Times sessions but much of the work takes place in the committee rooms in Westminster.

Scrutinising European Laws

Since 1998 I have been a member of the European Scrutiny Select Committee and am now the Chair. This committee is responsible for looking at many controversial European issues that require an input from British Government ministers.

Scottish Politics and Economy

The Scottish Parliamentary Labour Party Group, of which I have been Vice-Chair and Chair in the past, keeps me in regular contact with the new Scotland Office ministers to discuss the progress being made by government.

Trade Unions

Trade Unions are vital to the Labour Movement. The ability to combine together in Trade Unions is a basic right in a free society. I am a member of the Trade Union Group of MP's who take a deeper interest in making certain the matters that are important to those employees who are trade unionists are raised in parliament.