Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
MSP for Lothian (Region) 2016 - present day
The Scottish Parliament
Edinburgh
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These are the official transcripts of what was said by this MSP in the chamber and at committee meetings. You'll find the topic discussed and how many times this MSP has contributed to the discussion.
Criminal Justice Committee meeting date: 14 November 2024
Jeremy Balfour (Lothian) (Con): "Good morning, cabinet secretary, and to your team. Could you give us an update on the expected opening date of the safer drug consumption facility in Glasgow? It was due to open last month, so where are we with the timescales?"
Chamber meeting date: 13 November 2024
Jeremy Balfour (Lothian) (Con): "Politicians have a duty to think about the consequences of the decisions that we make, both intended and unintended…
Chamber meeting date: 31 October 2024
Jeremy Balfour (Lothian) (Con): "I have met representatives of many house developers here in Edinburgh and Lothian, and they all tell me that because of rent controls they are going to axe plans to deliver hundreds more houses in the city…
Chamber meeting date: 31 October 2024
Jeremy Balfour (Lothian) (Con): "Does that mean that the member believes that the commissioner in the Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill should be taken out and that we should have no commissioner in that bill?"
Social Justice and Social Security Committee meeting date: 31 October 2024
Jeremy Balfour (Lothian) (Con): "It is good to have you here, cabinet secretary. I have a couple of questions…
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Submitted by: Liam Kerr, North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party. Date lodged: Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Result 48 for, 70 against, 0 abstained, 11 did not vote
MSP voted for
Vote Defeated
Submitted by: Martin Whitfield, South Scotland, Scottish Labour. Date lodged: Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Supported by: Jackie Baillie, Neil Bibby, Katy Clark, Rhoda Grant, Mark Griffin, Daniel Johnson, Michael Marra, Pauline McNeill, Paul O'Kane, Colin Smyth
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Result 51 for, 67 against, 0 abstained, 11 did not vote
MSP voted for
Vote Defeated
Submitted by: Meghan Gallacher, Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party. Date lodged: Monday, November 11, 2024
Supported by: Tess White
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Result 66 for, 52 against, 1 abstained, 10 did not vote
MSP voted against
Vote Passed
Submitted by: Jamie Hepburn, Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, Scottish National Party. Date lodged: Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Result 61 for, 0 against, 57 abstained, 11 did not vote
MSP abstained
Vote Passed
Submitted by: Shirley-Anne Somerville, Dunfermline, Scottish National Party. Date lodged: Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Supported by: Paul McLennan, Kaukab Stewart
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Result 60 for, 57 against, 1 abstained, 11 did not vote
MSP voted against
Vote Passed
Find out what motions Jeremy Balfour has submitted recently.
These are the questions that this MSP has asked in Parliament. It also includes any answer to those questions.
Asked by: Balfour, Jeremy, Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date Lodged: 17 October 2024
"To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the pressures on its spending, what its position is on whether it is now appropriate for all Flood Risk Management Plans that are still to be approved to be subject to Cycle Two arrangements."
Answered by Gillian Martin on 1 November 2024
Asked by: Balfour, Jeremy, Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date Lodged: 17 October 2024
"To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether the design requirements of flood protection schemes (FPS) should be determined first-and-foremost by the hydrological and river and/or coastal geomorphology, and that, therefore, the design of any active travel plans in the same area should only ever be considered once the design of an…
Answered by Gillian Martin on 1 November 2024
Asked by: Balfour, Jeremy, Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date Lodged: 17 October 2024
"To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether a working version of all hydrological and hydraulic models used to formulate flood maps in support of flood protection schemes should be made freely available to the public."
Answered by Gillian Martin on 1 November 2024
Asked by: Balfour, Jeremy, Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date Lodged: 17 October 2024
"To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether the presentation of a flood protection scheme in a publicly-available notification must be sufficiently clear so that the deemed planning authority-granted elements of the scheme are clearly and unambiguously identifiable from any elements that require planning permission under the Town…
Answered by Gillian Martin on 1 November 2024
Asked by: Balfour, Jeremy, Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date Lodged: 17 October 2024
"To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether the standard of protection in Flood Risk Management Plans, under the Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009, should encompass the views of the beneficiaries, particularly the local community’s perceptions of the level of risk that is desirable and acceptable, and, if so, how…
Answered by Gillian Martin on 1 November 2024
Asked by: Balfour, Jeremy, Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date Lodged: 17 October 2024
"To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether it is appropriate that all new and, as yet, unbuilt flood protection schemes should incorporate a component of natural flood management as a requirement for receiving public funding."
Answered by Gillian Martin on 1 November 2024
Asked by: Balfour, Jeremy, Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date Lodged: 17 October 2024
"To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether community "appetite for risk" should be secondary to the implied standard of protection arising from the implementation of the UK Treasury Green Book and based upon Cost Benefit Analysis using SEPA’s proposed risk levels in relation to the development of flood development plans."
Answered by Gillian Martin on 1 November 2024
Asked by: Balfour, Jeremy, Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date Lodged: 17 October 2024
"To ask the Scottish Government whether it has developed the Cycle Two process for guiding and determining flood protection schemes under the Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009, and, if so, when this will be published."
Answered by Gillian Martin on 1 November 2024
Asked by: Balfour, Jeremy, Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date Lodged: 17 October 2024
"To ask the Scottish Government whether Flood Risk Management Plans submitted to it by local authorities, under the provisions of the Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009, have been scrutinised and signed-off by experts with relevant expertise in all aspects of a scheme, including hydrology and civil and structural engineering, and who are…
Answered by Gillian Martin on 1 November 2024
Asked by: Balfour, Jeremy, Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date Lodged: 17 October 2024
"To ask the Scottish Government how it is ensuring that value for money is achieved by the flood protection schemes that it is funding in full or partly."
Answered by Gillian Martin on 1 November 2024
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