Householders across Rutherglen and Cambuslang have been urged to check whether they use the Radio Teleswitch Service (RTS), ahead of the national switch-off on the 30th June 2025. 

MSP for Rutherglen Constituency, Clare Haughey has welcomed the news that over 5,500 affordable and social homes have built in South Lanarkshire since 2007. The latest housing data show that almost 137,000 have been built across Scotland, with 97,099 socially rented homes completed.  Proportionately, this is 40% more than those built in England and 70% more than those built in Wales.

Rutherglen Constituency MSP, Clare Haughey has slammed the UK Labour Government’s announcement that disability payments are to be slashed, branding the move cruel and draconian.  The UK Work and Pensions Secretary, Liz Kendall recently announced that the Westminster Government would slash Personal Independent Payments (PIP) by £5 billion per year by 2030.

Rutherglen Constituency MSP, Clare Haughey has welcomed new figures that show that over 2,500 apprentices were in training in South Lanarkshire at the end of last year.  The numbers, which are the latest on record, revealed that there are nearly 40,000 Modern Apprenticeships in place in Scotland.

Rutherglen Constituency MSP, Clare Haughey, has welcomed a “momentous milestone” reached in Scottish Child Payments, following the news that over £1 billion has been paid out to Scottish families since the payment was launched in 2021. In South Lanarkshire, over £62 million has been paid out over the last four years, with nearly 20,000 children in the area benefitting as of December 2024.

The MSP for Rutherglen Constituency, Clare Haughey has welcomed what she described on “encouraging progress” on waiting times for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).  The latest Public Health Scotland statistics show that across Scotland over 90.6% of children and young people referred to the service were seen within 18 weeks from October to December 2024 – the Scottish Government national standard is 90%.  The figure is an increase from 83.8% for the same quarter in 2023.  In NHS Lanarkshire, 90.8% of referrals were seen within the national waiting times standard between October and December.

The SNP Government’s Scottish Budget for 2025/26 has passed its final stage in the Scottish Parliament – delivering real progress for residents in Rutherglen and Cambuslang, local MSP Clare Haughey has said.  This ensured a record increase of nearly £2 billion for frontline NHS boards – with an extra £224 million for NHS Lanarkshire and £390.40 million for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, where many local residents are referred.  An additional £200 million investment will reduce waiting lists, and see over 150,000 extra patients treated as a result.

Rutherglen MSP, Clare Haughey has called on Keir Starmer to “apologise to voters for breaking his promises” after it was announced that energy bills will rise again - for the third time since Labour came to power. As previously reported in the Reformer, the UK energy watchdog Ofgem previously confirmed energy bill rises last October, and again this January.

WASPI campaigners have gathered outside the recent Scottish Labour conference in Glasgow, to protest again the UK Government’s decision not to award 1950s-born women compensation following changes to their state pension. Nearly a year ago, an ombudsman, UK Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) concluded that there had been maladministration from the UK Government, and that a compensation scheme must be established. More than 330,000 Scots women born in the 1950s were not adequately warned about changes to the UK state pension – including over 21,000 women in South Lanarkshire.

Additional NHS investment from the SNP Scottish Government is reducing waiting lists in Lanarkshire and Glasgow, new figures can reveal.  The figures show a 16.1% drop in waiting times in NHS Lanarkshire for scoping procedures, a 14.9% drop for ophthalmology waits, a 9.3% drop for orthopaedics, and a 7.3% drop for waiting times for imaging. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, where people from Rutherglen and Cambuslang may also be referred, have also seen drops in waiting times – including a 26.7% reduction for scoping procedures.