Briggs calls for debate around increasing Edinburgh’s Capital City Supplement and making City Bypass a “smart motorway”.

Briggs supports Cervical Cancer Prevention Week

Can you come along and help this week? We've got lots of campaigning to do, and not just in Edinburgh. 

Tucked away on the picturesque River Almond Walkway, roughly halfway between the Cramond Brig and Cramond Village, lie the Salvesen Steps.  Given as a gift to the city in 1966, the steps form a vital link over a rocky outcrop and without them the walkway as a continuous path would not exist.

Miles Briggs, Scottish Conservative & Unionist MSP for Lothian, and Councillor Nick Cook have voiced disappointment after being told by Edinburgh Council that it has no plans to investigate developing a new community centre in Morningside.

Miles Briggs, Scottish Conservative & Unionist MSP for Lothian, is challenging Edinburgh’s SNP Councillors to stand up for Edinburgh’s council taxpayers and oppose the Scottish Government’s council tax reforms.

Miles Briggs, Scottish Conservative & Unionist MSP for Lothian, is asking the Scottish Government to set out its plans for upgrading the A720 City Bypass. Miles has tabled Parliamentary questions after contact from constituents and businesses in Lothian concerned that the City Bypass is struggling to cope with current capacity and worried that plans are not being advanced to prepare the route for the increased traffic volumes caused by population growth in the region.

SNP plans to centralise services for cleft lip and palate patients should be scrapped, the Scottish Conservatives have said. Public health spokesman Miles Briggs will host a debate in Holyrood later today on the controversial proposals, which would see all patients treated in Glasgow.

Gordon Lindhurst, Scottish Conservative & Unionist MSP for Lothian, has this week welcomed the reintroduction of written police reports for community councils in the city.

Edinburgh Conservative Transport Spokesman, Councillor Nick Cook, has slammed fresh plans by the City of Edinburgh Council’s Labour/SNP administration to introduce Sunday parking charges aimed at generating up to almost £1 million in revenue for the local authority.