With winter closing in, I wish to remind constituents to get ready for anything the weather might bring. Last winter, more than 154,000 homes across Scotland experienced a boiler breakdown, leaving residents unable to heat their homes. During the ‘Beast from the East’, temperatures of below -10°C and wind speeds of over 60mph led to the busiest week on record for Scottish Gas, with 104 calls for assistance coming in every second – thirteen times usual call volumes.
MSP Clare Haughey is encouraging Rutherglen and Cambuslang residents to take up the offer of a free flu vaccination.
A new publicly accessible database has laid bare the financial impact that leaving the EU will have on areas across the UK, including here in Rutherglen and Cambuslang. The figures show that the EU has invested around £275,000 locally via research projects and for language training in schools.
Clare comment's on the impact Brexit will have on our NHS.
Rutherglen MSP Clare Haughey is urging deaf people who have queries about benefits to use a charity’s social security advocacy service.
Since its roll-out across South Lanarkshire, Universal Credit has been devastating for my constituents. By 2020-2021, Scottish people will have lost £3.7 billion through UK Government cuts to welfare spending, and that’s money coming out of the pockets of the lowest income families in our country and out of local communities.
Rutherglen MSP Clare Haughey is encouraging tech-savvy and budding entrepreneurs to sign up to a new social technology innovation award launched by Vodafone. Vodafone TechStarter aims to uncover and develop ideas to improve health, education, environmental protection and social mobility.
MSP Clare Haughey visited Cathkin High last Friday to speak with a fourth-year modern studies class about politics.
Around 50 locals attended an advice surgery held by Blantyre MSP Clare Haughey to help them begin the complaints process after they were allegedly mis-sold solar panels by the now bust company HELMS.
Young people in Rutherglen and Cambuslang are being called upon to submit their fun and vibrant designs and concepts to help design the new generation of Baby Boxes. Baby Boxes were introduced by the Scottish Government in 2017 to help tackle deprivation, improve health and support parents.
Clare Haughey MSP 