Your MSPs Who can I contact? The Scottish Parliament is made up of If you live in Scotland, you are represented by 129 Members of the Scottish Parliament eight MSPs – one for your constituency and (MSPs), who are elected by the people of seven for the larger parliamentary region that Your MSPs Scotland to represent them. includes your constituency. MSPs work on your behalf and make decisions Constituency and regional MSPs have the same Mid Scotland and Fife on a wide range of issues, including education, powers to represent you, and you are free to the environment, health, housing, civil and contact any of your eight MSPs. For example, criminal justice, and transport. you may choose to contact an MSP because they belong to a particular party or because you You can contact your MSPs even if you didn’t know that they have an interest in the topic you vote for them. want to discuss. If you ask for their help, you may expect an MSP to take on your case or to explain to Use the postcode search you why they will not on our website at take it on. However, parliament.scot/msps or it is for the MSP to contact Public Information to decide how to respond find out who your MSPs are to a request or enquiry. and how to contact them. i Public Information What do my MSPs do? How can I find out more about my MSPs? | Mondays and Fridays: MSPs normally work parliament.scot/live-chat in their local area. | Each MSP has a section on our website. This includes biographical information and 0800 092 7500 or 0131 348 5000 | Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays: recent voting records. 0131 348 5395 (Gàidhlig) MSPs are usually in the Parliament as | What MSPs say in the Chamber and contactSCOTLAND-BSL debates and committee meetings normally take place on these days. committee meetings is published in the Official Report, which is available on our [email protected] MSPs may also hold surgeries, speak at website. You can also watch videos of The Scottish Parliament meetings or attend events in the evenings and meetings on www.scottishparliament.tv Edinburgh, EH99 1SP at weekends. and on YouTube. | MSPs often produce newsletters about their parliament.scot/contact Some MSPs are Cabinet Secretaries or work in the Parliament. Contact the MSPs’ Ministers in the Scottish Government, with offices for details. responsibility for a particular area of policy | Many MSPs have their own websites and such as health or justice. If one of your local social media accounts with information MSPs is a Cabinet Secretary or Minister, If you require information in about what they have been doing and you can still contact them for help or advice another format or language, surgery details. on any matter that is dealt with by the DESIGN GUIDELINES These Design Guidelines provide detailed please contact us. | Visit the Scottish Parliament to see your guidance on how to reproduce the ‘Happy to Translate’ Logo. This document can be viewed, downloaded Scottish Parliament. and printed as a PDF (Portable Document File) at www.happytotranslate.com. MSPs in action. Call Visitor Services on 3rdTo Edition (Feb 2008) find out more about how we 0800 092 7600 / 0131 348 5200 or email handle your information, see [email protected] to book tickets. www.parliament.scot/dataprotection LC19856 - 03/18 © SPCB 1st edition, June 2016 You can email any of your eight MSPs using the standard format: Mid Scotland and Fife firstname.surname.msp @ parliament.scot regional MSPs i Murdo Fraser MSP Mid Scotland and Fife Perthshire South and constituency MSPs Kinross-shire Roseanna Cunningham MSP Alex Rowley Perthshire North MSP John Swinney MSP North East Fife Willie Rennie Liz Smith MSP MSP Claire Baker MSP Dean Lockhart MSP Mid Fife and Glenrothes Alexander Stewart MSP Stirling Jenny Gilruth MSP Bruce Crawford MSP Kirkcaldy Mark Ruskell David Torrance MSP Clackmannanshire MSP and Dunblane Keith Brown Cowdenbeath MSP This map is Annabelle Ewing reproduced from Dunfermline Ordnance Survey MSP material with the permission of Shirley-Anne Somerville Ordnance Survey. Regional MSPs are shown in © Crown copyright. MSP All rights reserved. the order of election from the SPCB/100039291/ regional list. 2016. Scottish National Party Conservative Labour Green Liberal Democrat i.