MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife (Region)
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The Scottish Parliament
Edinburgh
EH99 1SP
Reform UK
MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife (Region)
07 May 2026 to present
Reform UK
Previous roles in cross-party groups are not included in this list.
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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: 9 June 2026
Helen McDade (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Reform): "On a point of order, Presiding Officer. I just wonder what the process is. Can you explain what happens once a vote has been cast when there is only one candidate, so that we know what we are voting against?"
Chamber meeting date: 3 June 2026
Helen McDade (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Reform): "Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I congratulate you on your new role, and I thank the cabinet secretary for her speech and congratulate her on her new role…
Chamber meeting date: 2 June 2026
Helen McDade (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Reform): "To ask the Scottish Government what role it has in response to the incident of subsidence in Coalsnaughton Road, Tillicoultry, in which 30 houses have been evacuated—the figure is now 97 houses. (S7O-00004)"
Chamber meeting date: 28 May 2026
Helen McDade (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Reform): "Will the member take an intervention?"
Chamber meeting date: 14 May 2026
Helen McDade (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Reform): "I, Helen McDade, do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King Charles, his heirs and successors, according to law. So help me God."
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Motion reference: S7M-00289
These are the questions that this MSP has asked in Parliament. It also includes any answer to those questions.
Asked by: Helen McDade, Mid Scotland and Fife, Reform UK
Date lodged: 16 July 2026
Current Status: Answered by Siobhian Brown on 30 July 2026
"To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the Council of Europe Committee for the Prevention of Torture report on its June 2025 visit to Scotland, which was published on 2 July 2026, by what date it will implement the outstanding recommendations of this report in relation to children's secure accommodation, and how it will report progress."
Asked by: Helen McDade, Mid Scotland and Fife, Reform UK
Date lodged: 16 July 2026
Current Status: Answered by Siobhian Brown on 30 July 2026
"To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the contrast between the three to five written complaints made annually and the safeguarding concerns identified by the Care Inspectorate and the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture, what specific steps it will take to improve children's confidence in the internal complaints system at St…
Asked by: Helen McDade, Mid Scotland and Fife, Reform UK
Date lodged: 2 July 2026
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 27 July 2026
"To ask the Scottish Government whether it will request NHS Education for Scotland to publish information on the number of children's and young people's nursing graduates compared with the number of available children's and young people's nursing posts, broken down by NHS board, in each of the last three years."
Asked by: Helen McDade, Mid Scotland and Fife, Reform UK
Date lodged: 2 July 2026
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 20 July 2026
"To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that newly qualified children's and young people's nurses, as a small and specialist workforce, are offered posts commensurate with the level of public investment made in their training."
Asked by: Helen McDade, Mid Scotland and Fife, Reform UK
Date lodged: 2 July 2026
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 20 July 2026
"To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the impact of newly qualified nurses being unable to secure a post on future nursing recruitment, in light of the rate of acceptances to undergraduate nursing courses in Scotland decreasing by 5.4% in 2025, from 3,530 to 3,340, which is the lowest level in seven years."
Asked by: Helen McDade, Mid Scotland and Fife, Reform UK
Date lodged: 2 July 2026
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 20 July 2026
"To ask the Scottish Government whether any NHS board has paused, frozen, capped or otherwise restricted the recruitment of newly qualified nurses and, if so, (a) which NHS board, (b) for what reason and (c) following what guidance or instruction from the Scottish Government or health bodies, in each of the last three years."
Asked by: Helen McDade, Mid Scotland and Fife, Reform UK
Date lodged: 2 July 2026
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 20 July 2026
"To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the situation whereby appointable nursing graduates have been told that no posts are available, while at the same time as there were reportedly 3,227…
Asked by: Helen McDade, Mid Scotland and Fife, Reform UK
Date lodged: 2 July 2026
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 20 July 2026
"To ask the Scottish Government further to the February 2025 report by the Nursing and Midwifery Taskforce, Delivering Together for a Stronger Nursing and Midwifery Workforce, what progress it has made towards implementing the report's recommended actions and whether any of them addresses the position of newly qualified nurses who are assessed as…
Asked by: Helen McDade, Mid Scotland and Fife, Reform UK
Date lodged: 2 July 2026
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 20 July 2026
"To ask the Scottish Government, in light of a combined cost of £425 million for bank and agency nursing and midwifery staffing in 2025-26, equivalent to 7,320 whole-time-equivalent staff, and in the context of appointable newly qualified nurses being unable to secure permanent posts, what assessment it has made of the value for money of…
Asked by: Helen McDade, Mid Scotland and Fife, Reform UK
Date lodged: 2 July 2026
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 20 July 2026
"To ask the Scottish Government how the further reduction in the nursing working week, which increases the number of staff required to maintain the same number of care hours, has been factored into NHS boards' plans for recruitment of newly qualified nurses."