Responding to a new report into perinatal experiences during Covid, Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson and leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said:

Responding to research from Cancer Research UK showing that over a third of cancers in Scotland (38.5%) are being diagnosed through emergency routes like hospital A&E departments, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader and health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton said: 

• Typical family in Scotland set to pay an extra £130 in national insurance contributions (NICs) this year as cost-of-living crunch hits.
• Local businesses are also set to feel the squeeze with a £493m tax hit.
• Lib Dems demand emergency VAT tax cut to put money back in pockets of struggling families.

Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has today called on the Scottish Government to stop their centralisation mission and get to grip with the social care crisis on the ground, as new figures show a 57% year-on-year increase in delayed discharges.

New Scottish Liberal Democrat analysis has shown that more than 300,000 scheduled operations have now been lost to the pandemic and the party has called for urgent action as the backlog continues to grow.

Scottish Liberal Democrat leader and health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today reiterated his call for an urgent inquiry into avoidable deaths caused by the crisis in emergency care.

Scottish Liberal Democrat agriculture spokesperson Clare McLaren and Orkney and Shetland MP, Alistair Carmichael have responded to today’s report, released by the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, on labour shortages in the food and farming sector, calling it a “damning” indictment of Conservative inaction. 

Responding to the news that Chancellor Rishi Sunak's wife claims non-domicile tax status, Liberal Democrat Treasury Spokesperson Christine Jardine said:

Responding to the publication of the UK government’s new energy strategy, Treasury spokesperson and MP for Edinburgh West Christine Jardine said:

Scottish Liberal Democrat leader and health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has warned over 10,000 people missed out on the dementia support they are entitled to, after statistics showed a widening gap between uptake and the number of people thought to be newly diagnosed.