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Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs)

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Ash Regan

Alba Party

MSP for Edinburgh Eastern (Constituency) 2023 - present day

Scottish National Party

Former MSP for Edinburgh Eastern (Constituency) 2016 - 2023

About Ash Regan

Contact details

Contact online

X (previously known as Twitter): @AshReganALBA

Facebook: Ash's facebook

Contact at the Scottish Parliament

The Scottish Parliament
Edinburgh
EH99 1SP

Phone: 0131 348 5922
Text relay calls welcome.

Contact at local office

18 Niddrie Mains Road
Edinburgh
EH16 4GB

Phone: 0131 661 4888
Text relay calls welcome.

Committees

Ash is not a member of any committees

Cross-party groups

Ash is a member of 1 cross-party group

Cross-Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on Commercial Sexual Exploitation

Member

Parliamentary and Government Roles

Ash does not have any parliamentary or government roles

Party Roles

Ash does not have any party roles

Previous roles

Ash has had 9 previous roles

Previous roles in cross-party groups are not included in this list.

09 November 2022 - 30 October 2023

Net Zero Energy and Transport Committee

Member

29 June 2023 - 30 October 2023

Economy and Fair Work Committee

Member

18 April 2023 - 14 July 2023

COVID19 Recovery Committee

Substitute Member

29 September 2016 - 28 June 2018

Finance and Constitution Committee

Member

21 November 2017 - 28 June 2018

Health and Sport Committee

Deputy Convener

16 November 2017 - 21 November 2017

Health and Sport Committee

Member

08 June 2016 - 16 November 2017

Economy Jobs and Fair Work Committee

Member

08 June 2016 - 29 September 2016

Finance Committee

Member

29 June 2016 - 06 September 2016

European and External Relations Committee

Member

Register of interests

Ash's register of interests

MSPs must provide details of their financial interests in the Register of Interests. They make an initial statement on becoming or being returned as an MSP. This is then updated with any changes they provide.

Here is the register for Ash Regan. The date of their initial statement was 01 June 2021.

Remuneration and related undertaking

On 11 July 2023, I received £600 for writing three columns for the Reach Plc, Sunday Mail (of One Canada Square Canary Wharf, London E14 5AP). I undertook this work in February and March 2023 and it took me six hours to prepare the articles. [Registered 11 September 2023]

Gifts

No registrable interests

Overseas visits

From 4 to 6 September 2023, I attended and gave a talk at the Promoting International Cooperation, Cultural Understanding & Peace Conference in Skopje, North Macedonia. The costs of the travel and accommodation amounted to £825.50 and were met, along with hospitality costs, by the Institute of Cultural Diplomacy (an international, not-for-profit, non-governmental organization with headquarters in the USA and in Germany; ICD House of Arts & Culture, Soltauer Str. 18-22, 13509 Berlin, Germany). [Registered 7 November 2023]

Controlled transactions

No registrable interests

Heritable property

No registrable interests

Interest in shares

No registrable interests

Voluntary

No registrable interests

Recent Activity

What was said

What Ash Regan has said in Parliament

These are the official transcripts of what was said by this MSP in the chamber and at committee meetings. You'll find the topic discussed and how many times this MSP has contributed to the discussion.

Chamber meeting date: 8 May 2024

Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People (Cass Review)

Ash Regan (Edinburgh Eastern) (Alba): "The minister has just set out that the CMO will seek to provide a written statement to the Parliament on the progress that is being made, but I ask the Government to consider that it might be advisable for the CMO to appear in Parliament to aid that scrutiny."

Chamber meeting date: 7 May 2024

Grangemouth Refinery (Support)

Ash Regan (Edinburgh Eastern) (Alba): "Having raised the need for urgent action, I welcome the news that Petroineos has invested in and restarted the hydrocracker and that the site is turning a profit…

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee meeting date: 7 May 2024

Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People

Ash Regan (Edinburgh Eastern) (Alba): "Good morning, Dr Cass. I want to pick up on a couple of areas that have already been discussed. The first is about the cohort of patients…

Chamber meeting date: 1 May 2024

Bute House Agreement

8. Ash Regan (Edinburgh Eastern) (Alba): "To ask the Scottish Government whether it still plans to deliver the shared policy programme contained within the Bute house agreement, in light of reports that many of its policies have been discarded. (S6O-03371)"

Chamber meeting date: 23 April 2024

Gender-identity Healthcare for Young People

Ash Regan (Edinburgh Eastern) (Alba): "Given the importance of this issue, the public would have rightly expected the First Minister or the Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care to have made the statement…

Votes

How Ash Regan has voted in Parliament

Find out how Ash Regan has voted recently.

Motion ref. S6 SP Bill 36 Amendment 10

Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Result 47 for, 68 against, 0 abstained, 14 did not vote

MSP voted against

Vote Defeated

Motion ref. S6 SP Bill 36 Amendment 9

Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Result 52 for, 65 against, 0 abstained, 12 did not vote

MSP voted against

Vote Defeated

Motion ref. S6 SP Bill 36 Amendment 14

Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Result 48 for, 67 against, 0 abstained, 14 did not vote

MSP voted against

Vote Defeated

Motion ref. S6 SP Bill 36 Amendment 47

Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Result 47 for, 66 against, 0 abstained, 16 did not vote

MSP voted for

Vote Defeated

Motion ref. S6 SP Bill 36 Amendment 42

Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Result 45 for, 66 against, 0 abstained, 18 did not vote

MSP voted against

Vote Defeated

Motions

Questions

Questions Ash Regan has asked

These are the questions that this MSP has asked in Parliament. It also includes any answer to those questions.

Question ref. S6W-27509

Asked by: Regan, Ash, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party, Date Lodged: 14 May 2024

"To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the recent investigation into non-departmental public bodies, also known as quangos, by The Scotsman, which reportedly found that 66 of 114 quangos have failed to publish financial information as required by the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010."

Answer expected on 30 May 2024

Question ref. S6W-27479

Asked by: Regan, Ash, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party, Date Lodged: 14 May 2024

"To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the concerns raised by the group, Children's Hearings Scotland Scandal, whether it has made any representations to the UK Government regarding including volunteer panel members of Children's Hearings Scotland under existing whistleblowing law."

Answer expected on 30 May 2024

Question ref. S6W-27474

Asked by: Regan, Ash, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party, Date Lodged: 14 May 2024

"To ask the Scottish Government, as part of its work to further the case for Scottish independence, what recent discussions the (a) former Minister for Independence, (b) Cabinet Secretary for Constitution, External Affairs and Culture and (c) First Minister has had with the (i) Prime Minister, (ii) Minister for Intergovernmental Relations and (iii)…

Answer expected on 30 May 2024

Question ref. S6W-27511

Asked by: Regan, Ash, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party, Date Lodged: 14 May 2024

"To ask the Scottish Government what (a) correspondence and (b) engagement it has had with non-departmental public bodies, also known as quangos, in relation to the recent findings from The Scotsman investigation."

Answer expected on 30 May 2024

Question ref. S6W-27515

Asked by: Regan, Ash, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party, Date Lodged: 14 May 2024

"To ask the Scottish Government whether it can provide a breakdown of its reported £21,489,000 spend on external consultancies in 2022-23, and what it predicts the costs to be in the current financial year."

Answer expected on 30 May 2024

Question ref. S6W-27521

Asked by: Regan, Ash, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party, Date Lodged: 14 May 2024

"To ask the Scottish Government how much funding the City of Edinburgh Council is due to receive for affordable housebuilding in the next three financial years, and whether it will consider providing further support in light of the local authority's declaration of a housing emergency."

Answer expected on 30 May 2024

Question ref. S6W-27510

Asked by: Regan, Ash, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party, Date Lodged: 14 May 2024

"To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the recent investigation by The Scotsman, which reportedly found that non-departmental public bodies, also known as quangos, are failing to disclose key financial and transparency details at key intervals."

Answer expected on 30 May 2024

Question ref. S6W-27513

Asked by: Regan, Ash, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party, Date Lodged: 14 May 2024

"To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the recent findings from The Scotsman investigation, which reportedly found multimillion pound spending on PR and consultancy bills by NHS bodies."

Answer expected on 30 May 2024

Question ref. S6W-27514

Asked by: Regan, Ash, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party, Date Lodged: 14 May 2024

"To ask the Scottish Government whether it will conduct an independent review of the current landscape of non-departmental public bodies, also known as quangos, to ensure that they are fit for purpose and providing taxpayers value for money, and whether it will review the remuneration paid to (a) chairpersons, (b) non-executive directors and (c)…

Answer expected on 30 May 2024

Question ref. S6W-27468

Asked by: Regan, Ash, Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party, Date Lodged: 13 May 2024

"To ask the Scottish Government what steps it has taken to allow the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman to hear complaints regarding Children's Hearings Scotland raised by its panel members."

Answer expected on 29 May 2024

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