Jim Hume, Scottish Liberal Democrat MSP for South Scotland, has written to the Justice Secretary urging him to get behind proposals put forward by the East Lothian Faculty of Procurators to rethink the closure of Haddington Sheriff and Justice of the Peace Courts.

Scottish Liberal Democrats have today hailed a decision by the Scottish Police Authority that will mean the ban on routinely armed policing is maintained.

Scottish Liberal Democrats have questioned why SNP ministers have failed to allocate £21m of university funding.

Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, Willie Rennie, has called for the establishment of a cross-party "advance team" to ensure the swift implementation of new powers to Holyrood.

Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Alison McInnes has said that the Justice Secretary must set out the next steps for female prisoners at HMP  & YOI Cornton Vale.

Scottish Liberal Democrats have urged SNP ministers to get a grip of integrating health and social care after figures today showed that the Scottish Government had to spend £1.4bn on unplanned hospital admissions for people aged 65 years and over.

Scottish Liberal Democrats have called on the Health Secretary to make public the weekly figures on A&E waiting times after it was revealed patients had to wait up to 20 hours in a Portakabin to be seen at Glasgow's Victoria Hospital. 

Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie MSP today declared it is “all systems go” for the general election campaign as he joined activists in Edinburgh with 100 days to go until polling day.

South of Scotland MSP Jim Hume has hit out at the SNP’s short-sighted decisions on public services as the SNP cabinet prepares to meet in Dumfries today.

Following the announcement that the Scottish Government has scrapped plans for a new women’s jail in Inverclyde, Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson, Alison McInnes MSP said: