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
Email: [email protected]
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.
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
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
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
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
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
Motions made by Ash Regan in Parliament
Find out what motions Ash Regan has submitted recently.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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