Tom Arthur, SNP MSP for Renfrewshire South, has welcomed £15.2bn of resource investment in education and skills across Scotland, benefitting children and young people in the Constituency. As set out in the Scottish Government’s Spending Review this week, £1bn will be invested in this term of parliament in tackling the poverty-related attainment gap. After the Read more…
ADDRESSING CLIMATE CRISIS KEY PRIORITY FOR SNP GOVERNMENT SPENDING The SNP Scottish Government’s spending review has put Scotland’s transition to net zero and ensuring Renfrewshire South benefits from a greener, fairer economy at its heart, with around £6.8 billion investment. In the Resource Spending Review, Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Kate Read more…
As communities across Renfrewshire South recover from the pandemic and face a Tory-made cost of living crisis, yesterday the SNP Government’s spending review outlined record social security spending to help households facing increasing pressures. The Scottish Government allocated around £23 billion for social security over the course of the parliament. Read more…
1,195 children in East Renfrewshire have been supported by the Scottish Child Payment since its introduction by the SNP Scottish Government. Since the support started putting extra money in the pockets of families £562,980 has been spent supporting families in East Renfrewshire since February 2021. Children across East Renfrewshire are Read more…
4,110 children in Renfrewshire have been supported by the Scottish Child Payment since its introduction by the SNP Scottish Government. Since the support started putting extra money in the pockets of families £1,899,670 has been spent supporting families in Renfrewshire since February 2021. Children across Renfrewshire are already benefitting from Read more…
Tom Arthur, SNP MSP for Renfrewshire South has welcomed the announcement that a low-emission zone will be introduced in Glasgow to clean up the air in the city and improve public health. Low-emission zones will come into force on 1st June 2023 in Glasgow, and will mean that certain vehicles Read more…
Tom Arthur, SNP MSP for Renfrewshire South has welcomed the recent announcement of funding awards for local organisations from The National Lottery Community Funds. Three groups within the Constituency have benefitted from National Lottery backing to the tune of nearly £161,000. The bulk of this funding has been granted to Read more…
£542,958 has been spent this year in East Renfrewshire mitigating cruel Tory cuts including the disgraceful bedroom tax. In 2021/22 £542,958 was provided by the SNP Scottish Government in Discretionary Housing Payments to protect families from cuts, with £426,738 spent mitigating the impact of the cruel Tory bedroom tax in East Read more…
£2,761,790 has been spent this year in Renfrewshire mitigating cruel Tory cuts including the disgraceful bedroom tax. In 2021/22 £2,761,790 was provided by the SNP Scottish Government in Discretionary Housing Payments to protect families from cuts, with £2,488,652 spent mitigating the impact of the cruel Tory bedroom tax in Renfrewshire. Across Read more…
Tom Arthur, SNP MSP for Renfrewshire South met with Neil Wood, Founder and Director of The Folks’ Music Project last week to discuss the project’s plans and some of the challenges currently faced by community music programmes. The organisation provides affordable, accessible and good quality music tuition and activities using Read more…
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