Charities: UK Gov not doing enough on fuel poverty

Responding to news that more than 100 charities, energy companies and businesses have written to David Cameron saying the UK’s cold homes “national disgrace” is because of failure of Westminster policy, the SNP has said the Tory-led system must do more to help those at risk of fuel poverty.

SNP step in to help advice groups under pressure

The SNP has welcomed news that benefits advice groups will share £5.4million to help them cope with the increasing demand for help from hard-hit families as a result of Westminster’s cuts.

Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced the Scottish Government is directing a new package of funding that will see –

UK caught "red-handed" on Scotland's underspend

A Freedom of Information request has revealed Scotland is being sold short on defence spending – to the tune of £7.4billion – and gives conclusive proof that the Ministry of Defence has hidden damaging evidence of this massive underspend in Scotland, having consistently denied holding this information.

Doubt over Europe comes only from Westminster

Nicola Sturgeon writes, as published in the Sunday Herald:

In the speech that the Prime Minister was due to deliver on Friday – and let me record my support for David Cameron's decision to postpone it because of the pressing urgency of the Algerian crisis – he was reportedly going to say that the UK risked "drifting towards the exit" of the European Union.

Opposition must outline what they would cut

Ahead of the coming budget debate, opposition parties have been challenged to have the responsibility to set ou

Murdo Fraser ignores conclusions of committee

Concern has been raised over repeated claims made by Murdo Fraser MSP
that ignore the extensive evidence h

No evidence in shoddy & partisan Davidson report

The SNP have dismissed the latest report from the Westminster Scottish
Affairs Committee on shipbuilding as "shoddy and partisan", and
unsupported by the evidence.

SNP Westminster leader and Defence spokesperson Angus Robertson MP
seized on why evidence taken by the committee, for example

Scotland and rUK in EU: co-equal successor states

A leading International lawyer and academic from the USA has said that post-independence Scotland and the rUK will be “co-equal successor states” in relation to EU membership.

Humza Yousaf backs Glasgow Euro Championships bid

Glasgow’s bid to be a host city of the football European Championships in 2020 is being backed by the SNP’s Humza Yousaf.

Mr Yousaf, MSP for Glasgow, said:

SNP comment on Michael Moore speech

Commenting on the speech by Scottish Secretary Michael Moore today on an independent Scotland, SNP MSP Kenneth Gibson said: