Westminster

The SNP has welcomed news that Ofgem is to investigate energy providers over claims that they are misleading customers persuaded to switch supplier on their doorstep or over the phone.

Westen Isles SNP MP Angus MacNeil has welcomed the announcement from the Scottish Government that RET will be continuing after the end of the pilot project in March 2011.

The SNP have demanded clarity over the future of thousands of Scottish shipyard jobs following reports that the Coalition Government may scrap or downgrade one of the two aircraft carriers under construction.

A bid to reverse the coalition government’s refusal to include abolition of the Act of Settlement within the much lauded Freedom (Great Repeal) Bill has been mounted by an SNP MP ahead of the visit by Pope Benedict XVI.

SNP MP for Na h-Eileanan an Iar, Angus MacNeil, highlighted soaring fuel prices and called on the Treasury to introduce an Islands’ Rural Fuel Derogation before the January VAT hike.

The UK has "squandered" it's oil wealth and it is "imperative" an oil fund is set up now to secure the wealth that remains under the North Sea for future generations according Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz.

SNP Work and Pensions Spokeswoman, Dr Eilidh Whiteford MP, has described Con Dem plans to squeeze child benefit and winter fuel allowance as "the wrong choice".

SNP MP Angus MacNeil has described the first 100 days of the coalition government as ‘a shameful start’ as the so called "respect agenda" faltered and Number 10 only succeeded in delivering cuts for Scotland.

Ahead of his speech at the Edinburgh Book Festival tonight the SNP called on Alastair Darling to accept his responsibility for two thirds of the coming cuts to Scotland’s budget and for ushering in Cameron’s Conservatives.

The SNP has expressed concern after research by Consumer Focus revealed that the number of people taking out expensive payday loans has quadrupled over the last four years.