Tag: Jeremy Balfour
Council leader criticises MSP for misleading staff
The Council Leader Adam McVey has accused a Conservative Lothians MSP of making “misleading” comments that caused “distress” to the authority’s staff.
Writing for this and other local newspapers, Conservative MSP for the Lothians, Jeremy...
MSP congratulates Oaklands School on winning sporting gold
Jeremy Balfour, Scottish Conservative MSP for the Lothian Region, visited Oaklands School on Ferry Road this week where he heard first-hand about their tremendous achievement of winning a Gold award from sportscotland for school...
MSP says disability does not mean inability
Jeremy Balfour, Scottish Conservative MSP addressed the Scottish Parliament recently to outline his ongoing concern for the continuing lack of employment opportunities for disabled people and the shockingly wide gap between 42% of disabled...
Balfour supports cancer drug petition
Jeremy Balfour, Scottish Conservative MSP for Lothian is backing Breast Cancer Now’s campaign to ensure the “life-changing” breast cancer drug Perjeta is made available to women in Scotland.Jeremy met with secondary breast cancer patient...
Scottish Conservatives launch Save Our Roads campaign
Jeremy Balfour MSP calls for action in tackling Edinburgh’s growing problem with
potholes.The Scottish Conservatives have launched a national pothole campaign, ‘Save Our Roads’, to raise awareness of the decaying state of Scotland’s roads and bring the issue into...
Lothians MSP highlights the difficulties in banning plastic straws
Jeremy Balfour, Scottish Conservative MSP addressed the Scottish Parliament in March to ask the Scottish Government what measures they are taking to ensure that disabled people are not disadvantaged by the ban on plastic...
Balfour congratulates Granton Community Gardeners
Jeremy Balfour, Scottish Conservative MSP for the Lothian Region raised a motion at the Scottish Parliament this week, congratulating Granton Community Gardeners on being awarded £78,534 from the Big Lottery Fund. Over £1 million...
#SP16 Getting to be an MSP – it’s all in the cards
One of the surprise announcements made overnight was that Jeremy Balfour is going to be a list MSP at Holyrood. But it seems that his appointment hinged on a pack of cards.He was elected under...
Council Elections 2012 – Meet the candidates – Jeremy Balfour
Jeremy Balfour is the Conservative Group leader and is the candidate for Corstorphine/Murrayfield Ward. He was born in Edinburgh and has lived here most of his life. He is a former lawyer and church...
