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• Health portfolio responsibilities include:
• mental health wellbeing
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAHMS)
• suicide prevention
• dementia
• Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

• The Committee scrutinises legislation and conducts inquiries on the following areas:
• health services in Scotland, including performance, staffing and funding
• NHS recovery and remobilisation
• primary care, including dentistry, GPs, and pharmacy services
• public health including mental health and wellbeing, and tackling drug and alcohol misuse
• social care

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Elected as the Labour and Co-operative Party Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Glasgow Region at the 2021 Scottish Election.Appointed as the Shadow Minister for Public Finance and Employment in May 2021.Appointed Shadow Minister for Mental Health in January 2023.Appointed Deputy Convener of the Scottish Parliament's Health, Social Care and Sport.

• The Committee's work focuses on:
• all public petitions submitted to Parliament
• deciding what actions should be taken for all valid public petitions
• reviewing the operation of the public petitions system
• strengthening participatory democracy

• Specific responsibilities included scrutiny of Scottish Ministers and development of policy across the following areas:
• community wealth and community empowerment
• public bodies policy
• public sector pensions
• Scottish Public Pensions Agency
• community wealth building

• The Committee’s work focuses on:
• checking secondary legislation coming before Parliament for legal and technical accuracy
• checking whether proposed powers to make secondary legislation in Bills are appropriate
• reporting its findings to Parliament so all laws and proposals for laws get proper oversight from MSPs
• looking at certain Bills which are based on reports from the Scottish Law Commission. The Commission recommends changes to the law so it keeps pace with the way we live and work.

• Responsibilities included holding UK Government to account on the following areas of policy in Scotland:
• devolution, constitutional reform and exiting the European Union
• energy
• business and economy
• broadcasting
• investment and infrastructure

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Elected as the Labour and Co-operative Party Member of the UK Parliament for the Glasgow North East constituency at the 2017 General Election.Appointed as the Shadow Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland on 3 July 2017.

Walcheren Barracks, Maryhill, Glasgow

Serving in the Army Reserve (52nd Lowland, 6th Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland (6 SCOTS)) since the age of 17 has had a transformative effect upon my personal development, self-discipline and confidence, particularly as a result of developing my leadership abilities. My service in the Army Reserve has also enabled me to develop other skills, from.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

• Having developed significant operational experience within one of the world's leading defence, aerospace, naval shipbuilding and engineering companies, I joined Scottish Enterprise, Scotland's economic development.
• Providing an appropriate range of support to companies throughout their growth, varying the skills and intensity required in line with business needs.
• Improving the performance of high growth companies, measured in terms of sales growth over a 3 year period.
• Delivering clear performance improvements in companies that would not have been achieved without Scottish Enterprise support, in key areas such as Leadership, Innovation, Internationalisation and Productivity.

Govan And Scotstoun Shipyards, Glasgow, United Kingdom

• On completion of BAE Systems' Graduate Development Framework, I took up a permanent exit role within the Operations Strategic Capability and Resourcing Team, which oversees the long-term development of all.
• Supporting the creation of a strategic plan for how the Operations Function will evolve to anticipate and meet future needs by undertaking evaluations and options appraisals, using strategic analysis tools.
• Driving and sustaining collaborative, integrated working between Operations Strategy and Production Delivery, Transformation, Shipbuilding Facilities Modernisation, Production Engineering, Type 26 Programme and.
• Supporting the creation/cascade of information to the Operations team on relevant topics including: Functional Plan, Operations Strategy, Core Competencies and Objectives.
• Supporting the Operations Make vs. Buy evaluation process to ensure a clear consistency of approach across the business in order to support optimal and accurate decision making within the Make vs. Buy Transformation.
• Developing and updating performance norms to cover all Operations Core Competencies; offering innovative opportunities and solutions to continuously improve performance by researching and benchmarking internally as.

Govan And Scotstoun Shipyards, Glasgow, United Kingdom

• On completion of my degree at Glasgow University, I was successful in securing a position with BAE Systems on their Graduate Development Framework (GDF). This is a two year programme designed to give future managers.
• Type 26 Global Combat Ship - Production Engineering and Product Innovation Team. Developed Design for Manufacture rules and undertook Build Strategy analysis for optimum production of the future Type 26 vessels.
• Internal Lean Capability Team - Lean Learning Academy Coach.
• Type 45 Anti-Air Warfare Destroyer Programme - Duncan (Ship 6) - Shipbuild Outfitting Operations and Stage 1.1 Sea Trials Management.
• Production Engineering and Production Optimisation Team. Activities included Process Mapping, Value Stream Mapping and Development of Quality Standards within the Govan Steel Preparation and Fabrication.

HM Naval Base, Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Initially selected through the Saltire Foundation programme run by Scottish Enterprise, I was offered a direct position by BAE Systems Surface Ships in Portsmouth. Working in the Business Development department, I had the opportunity to become involved in a number of projects; including taking responsibility for ensuring compliance on a bid that was in the.

Ma (Honours), Economic History And Politics, First Class

Activities and Societies: Students’ Representative Council Member for Honours Economic History during 2009/10 academic year. Member of.

Certificate Of Higher Education (Certhe), Economics And Politics, Distinction

Activities and Societies: University Officer Training Corps (Territorial Army Sponsored Officer), LacrosseEquipped with a firm grounding.

Standard Grade And Higher

Activities and Societies: Eco-Schools Committee Chair, Prefect7 Higher Grades (Mathematics, English, Physics, Business Management.