Jeremy Balfour MSP has backed a call from disability campaign group One in Five, to urge the Scottish Government to pause their plastic straw ban while they consider the daily challenges this ban may pose for many disabled people.

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Jeremy Balfour Scottish Conservative MSP is calling for action to reduce and ultimately end Scotland’s disability employment gap.

Jeremy Balfour, Scottish Conservative MSP for the Lothian Region has raised a motion (see text below) at the Scottish Parliament today, congratulating Granton Community Garden on being awarded £78,534 from the Big Lottery Fund.

Jeremy Balfour, Scottish Conservatives MSP for Lothian, has lodged a motion in the Scottish Parliament highlighting a new charity called SuperTroop that specialises in residential holidays for children and young people with learning difficulties.

Jeremy Balfour, Scottish Conservative MSP raised a motion at the Scottish Parliament this week to lend his support for the upcoming Midlothian Science Festival.

Jeremy Balfour, Scottish Conservatives MSP for Lothian, has called for action to ban mobile phones in primary schools, to protect vulnerable youngers in our local communities.

The Midlothian Community Safety and Justice Partnership have received recognition in the Scottish Parliament today in a motion raised by Scottish Conservatives MSP Jeremy Balfour, for securing £3,701 in Big Lottery Funding.

Jeremy Balfour, Scottish Conservative MSP for the Lothian Region has raised a motion at the Scottish Parliament today, congratulating Midlothian based Youth Group Y2K on securing £10,000 of Big Lottery Funding.

Jeremy Balfour, MSP for the Lothian Region, met with the parents & grandparents of children with cancer, some who have already lost their child to this awful disease, in the Scottish Parliament this week to help raise #goldtastic awareness of childhood cancer.