Scottish Liberal Democrats have demanded SNP ministers take action to curb the extraordinary waste of NHS time and money after revealing that the number of missed hospital appointments in Scotland has soared to 800,000 in the last year.

Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Jim Hume MSP has called on the Cabinet Secretary for Health to explain how a major NHS IT project was allowed to go so far off track.

Scottish Liberal Democrat Justice spokesperson Alison McInnes MSP today called on SNP Ministers to help protect Scots from so-called ‘revenge porn’.

Scottish Liberal Democrats have warned that young people will pay the price for Scotland's failure to tackle problem drinking after new figures showed almost 5000 young people aged 10 – 18 have been treated for alcohol-related injury or illness in the last 3 years.

Scottish Liberal Democrats have urged Scottish ministers to hold a mirror up to their own efforts to tackle child poverty following damning criticism of its approach to and provision of early years care in the second ‘State of the Nation’ report into social mobility and child poverty today.

Scottish Liberal Democrat Justice spokesperson Alison McInnes MSP today said new figures showing an increase in the number of drug and weapons confiscations in Scottish prisons underline the scale of the challenge facing prison service staff as they work to keep inmates safe.

Speaking in the House of Commons debate today on devolution following the referendum, Scottish Liberal Democrat MP Michael Moore urged MPs to come together to deliver real change for Scotland.

Scottish Liberal Democrat Justice spokesperson Alison McInnes MSP today encouraged the SPA to enable all Scots to participate in a public consultation on the decision to allow the deployment of armed police on routine duties, following concerns the consultation is “inaccessible, needlessly complex and unnecessarily time-consuming”.

Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie MSP today said that the result of the referendum requires a bold approach to delivering further powers for Scotland in his party’s first submission to the Smith Commission.