Tom Arthur, SNP MSP for Renfrewshire South has warmly welcomed over £3.4 billion investment for transport announced in the SNP Scottish Government’s draft budget last week, to increase sustainable travel in Renfrewshire South The investment in the 2022/23 draft budget dedicates £314 million to support concessionary bus travel scheme which older Read more…
Tom Arthur, SNP MSP for Renfrewshire South has today welcomed the publication of new guidance to help businesses employees and customers stay safe and reduce the spreading of Covid-19. The guidance, which comes into effect at 00.01 Friday 17th December 2021, is part of the Scottish Government’s efforts to tackle Omicron, the Read more…
Tom Arthur, SNP MSP for Renfrewshire South has welcomed significant investment in education and skills to aid Scotland’s recovery from COVID, which was outlined in Holyrood at the Scottish Budget statement last week. Finance Secretary Kate Forbes MSP confirmed that resource and capital spending would increase by nearly £200 million – Read more…
Tom Arthur, SNP MSP for Renfrewshire South has welcomed commitments in the 2021-22 Scottish budget that set Scotland on a path to a Just Transition while securing hundreds of thousands of oil and gas jobs. Finance Secretary Kate Forbes announced the first £20m of the 10-year £500m being invested by the Read more…
MSP WELCOMES DOUBLING OF SCOTTISH CHILD PAYMENT Tom Arthur, SNP MSP for Renfrewshire South, has welcomed the First Minister’s announcement that the Scottish Child Payment will be doubled from April 2022. The announcement will see at least 1,290 eligible families across East Renfrewshire receiving £20 per week per child from spring Read more…
MSP WELCOMES DOUBLING OF SCOTTISH CHILD PAYMENT Tom Arthur, SNP MSP for Renfrewshire South, has welcomed the First Minister’s announcement that the Scottish Child Payment will be doubled from April 2022. The announcement will see at least 4,365 eligible families across Renfrewshire receiving £20 per week per child from spring next year, Read more…
PROJECTS IN RENFREWSHIRE SOUTH RECEIVE SCOTLAND LOVES LOCAL FUNDING Tom Arthur, SNP MSP for Renfrewshire South, has welcomed the announcement that projects in the area will receive £44,500 from the first round of grants from the Scotland Loves Local Fund. The funding, announced this week, is supporting over 100 organisations, who will receive a Read more…
East Renfrewshire Council is being ripped off to the tune of £13 million as they continue to pay for wretched PFI contracts – eating in to vital council education spending. Research from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) has found that the amount being forked out by East Renfrewshire Council Read more…
Tom Arthur, SNP MSP for Renfrewshire South met with representatives from Johnstone Business Consortium last week to discuss the Scotland Loves Local Campaign, current challenges to local businesses and ways to work together to boost the local economy and encourage people back into the Town Centre. Commenting, Tom Arthur said: Read more…
SNP MSP Tom Arthur has called on the Tory Westminster Government to make good on the money Scotland and Northern Ireland are owed as its share of the £20 billion from Boris Johnson’s ill-fated plan to build a bridge to Northern Ireland. Money which represents the equivalent of up to £487,340,397 for Renfrewshire The project – promoted by Boris Read more…