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Gun laws should be changed to allow firearms licences to be withdrawn from people convicted of wildlife crime says SNP MSP Dr Bill Wilson.

The SNP has today called on Labour to make clear if it supports allocating any Barnett consequentials resulting from health spending in England to health spending in Scotland – as the SNP is.

The SNP have called on the UK coalition government to “come clean” over plans for privatisation of Royal Mail.

The SNP has seized on the testimony by Lord Prescott to the Iraq Inquiry.

Commenting the announcement proposals to reform the benefits system, SNP Work and Pensions spokesperson, Dr Eilidh Whiteford, warned that benefit reforms must be based on genuine medical evidence.

Angus Robertson MP has condemned the ongoing speculation over the future of the RAF's Tornado jet fleet based in his Moray constituency.

As the SNP confirmed it remains committed to free personal care, concessionary travel for the elderly and a publicly owned Scottish Water Labour continued to ignore their responsibility for Scotland's public spending.

Scotland's political parties should join a discussion on how to handle spending cuts as a result of Labour, Liberal and Tory mismanagement of the economy.

A report by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) says the so-called continuous-at-sea-deterrence is no longer necessary following the end of the Cold War.

SNP Westminster Energy spokesperson, Mike Weir MP, has contrasted the UK Government programme, bogged down by nuclear, with the Scottish Government’s record of action, including an announcement today that more than 5,000 green jobs could be created through the development of three regional offshore energy manufacturing sites.