PROGRAMME FOR GOVERNMENT 2020/21
The Scottish Government has announced its Programme for Government. These are not normal times, this is not a normal Programme for Government. We must take the necessary steps to rebuild…
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SQA REGRADING STATEMENT
Motherwell and Wishaw MP, Marion Fellows, wrote to Education Secretary John Swinney last week to raise concerns about how pupils – especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds – were being graded.…
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MP MARION: “LOCAL PUPILS DESERVE FAIRNESS AND ROBUST APPEALS PROCESS”
MOST DEPRIVED PUPILS HAVE GRADES DISPROPORTIONATELY LOWERED COMPARED TO THOSE FROM WELL OFF BACKGROUNDS Following the publication of the Scottish Qualification Authority’s (SQA) results this week, Marion Fellows, MP for…
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NEW REPORT: UK GOVERNMENT ADVICE “CONFUSING, INCONSISTENT AND LACKING IN COMPASSION” WHILE MOTHERWELL & WISHAW RESIDENTS TRAPPED ABROAD
In a new report, the cross-party Foreign Affairs Committee has slammed the Foreign Office’s repatriation initiative to bring UK citizens home at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, calling it…
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SNP BACK COURT ACTION AGAINST CHILD MAINTENANCE SERVICE
“UK GOV MUST INTRODUCE MINIMUM MAINTENANCE PAYMENT NOW” The SNP are backing single-parents and child rights campaigners who are seeking a judicial review into unpaid child maintenance. Campaigners have called…
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SNP CALL FOR POST OFFICE SUBSIDY EXTENSION AS POST OFFICE ‘PROJECT NEO’ HINTS AT BRANCH CLOSURES
SNP MP, Marion Fellows, has today written to UK Business Secretary, Alok Sharma MP, to continue the public subsidy of Post Office Ltd to prevent branch closures and to provide…
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SNP MP CALLS FOR POST OFFICE SUBSIDY EXTENSION AS SCOTLAND STILL HARDEST HIT BY POSMASTER CRISIS
Today, SNP MP Marion Fellows has called on the UK Government to continue providing public subsidy to Post Office Ltd after figures reveal Scotland is still being hit hardest by…
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SNP MP CALLS FOR TEACHING OF SCOTLAND’S COLONIAL PAST AND RACISM IN SCHOOL CURRICULUM
Motherwell and Wishaw MP, Marion Fellows, has this week called for the Scottish Government to include the teaching of Scotland’s colonial past, and historical and present race relations in the…
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OVER 50,000 IN NL RISK LOSING INCOMES IF CORONAVIRUS SUPPORT ENDS
MP MARION CALLS FOR EXTENSION OF CORONAVIRUS INCOME SUPPORT SCHEMES AND INTRODUCTION OF UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME Figures from the UK Government have this week revealed that 50,300 people in North…
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MP MARION BACKS LOCAL AVIATION WORKERS
BA AND ROLLS-ROYCE ANNOUNCE REDUNDANCIES AND ‘FIRE AND RE-HIRE’ WITH REDUCED RIGHTS This week, Motherwell and Wishaw MP, Marion Fellows, has defended workers of British Airways (BA) and Rolls-Royce (RR)…