Alyn Smith MP has offered his congratulations to the Bannockburn High School team ‘Food for All’, winners of this year’s ‘Big Ideas 2020’ competition. The contest, run by the organisation ‘Solutions for the Planet’, combines STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and maths) along with an enterprise approach with a focus on sustainability issues centering around […]
Parliamentary Newsletter ‘Stirling Matters’, November 2020 (Edition 13)
Alyn Smith MP and Bruce Crawford MSP have today launched the thirteenth edition of a regular newsletter titled ‘Stirling Matters’. This newsletter is a handy way of keeping up-to-date with the latest activity from Alyn and Bruce, as they represent their constituents in the parliaments in London and Edinburgh respectively. To be directly emailed each new […]
Stirling Set To Lose Out as Vital EU Funding to Close
Stirling is set to lose out on hundreds of thousands of pounds of local funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the European Social Fund (ESF) as a result of Brexit. Large scale projects such as the Stirling Council LEAP (Learning, Employability and Progression) Programme have been supported through EU Grant funding – […]
Stirling MP and MSP Respond to Level Four Restrictions
Alyn Smith MP and Bruce Crawford have called on Stirling residents to pull together and reaffirm their efforts to tackle COVID-19, as the Stirling Council area enters Level 4 restrictions from Friday 20th November, for 3 weeks. The announcement of the move from Level 3 to Level 4 came on Tuesday, as First Minister Nicola […]
SNP Publish Submission to UK Gov Integrated Foreign Policy and Defence Review
The SNP has today (Tuesday) published its submission to the UK government’s Integrated Foreign Policy and Defence Review. Beyond outlining the party’s long-established opposition to Trident nuclear weapons, the submission underlines the SNP’s commitment to the rule of law and multilateralism, and challenges the UK’s approach to protect Scottish interests and values abroad. The party […]
Stirling MP Calls for Permanent Hospitality and Tourism VAT Cut
Alyn Smith MP has called on the UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak to make permanent the current reduction in VAT, for the hospitality and tourism sectors. A 5% VAT rate was introduced over the summer, in an effort to assist businesses hardest hit by coronavirus-related disruption. Currently this reduction is set to expire on 31 March […]