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Craig Hoy (Dumfriesshire) (Con) Con Chamber

General Question Time · GP Walk-in Centres (North Ayrshire)

It is 77 miles from Sanquhar to Stranraer, which is a journey that takes a minimum of two hours by car or at least four hours by bus. Given that my constituents will be expected to make that journey to access the GP walk-in centre in Stranraer, does that not expose the policy ...

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Wealth Taxation for Public Services

For clarification, the Scottish Conservatives proposed £1 billion-worth of tax cuts and £1 billion-worth of benefit cuts, which was absolutely axiomatic.

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Wealth Taxation for Public Services

Mr McLennan will be well aware that there are many different ways of generating economic growth. Torness power station in his East Lothian constituency has generated significant economic growth. Since it came on stream, it has contributed £17 billion in gross value added to th...

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Wealth Taxation for Public Services

Will the member take an intervention?

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Wealth Taxation for Public Services

Can Malcolm Offord clarify where Reform Scotland stands on benefits? We have been very clear on the two-child benefit cap—we would restore it and apply it to the Scottish child payment. What is Reform’s policy on that?

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Wealth Taxation for Public Services

Will the member take an intervention?

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Wealth Taxation for Public Services

Members can go back beyond Macmillan, to Disraeli and others, to find the principle of one-nation conservatism alive and well. The issue is how proportionately and effectively we tax the wealthy. I believe that, if we simply send a message out to globally wealthy individuals t...

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Wealth Taxation for Public Services

If I have unlimited time, I say to the member: bring it on.

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Wealth Taxation for Public Services

I do not believe that I have time to take an intervention.

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Wealth Taxation for Public Services

I will not. I think that I have been quite indulgent.

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Wealth Taxation for Public Services

I fully understand that that was the central policy proposition when the benefit was introduced, but there has been significant growth in the number of young people with mental health conditions, so can the cabinet secretary explain what additional costs are being experienced,...

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Wealth Taxation for Public Services

I will take the intervention if I get the time back, Deputy Presiding Officer.

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Wealth Taxation for Public Services

I do not have time, I am afraid—I have taken two already.

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Wealth Taxation for Public Services

Absolutely, but the best way to generate tax receipts is to keep people in employment. The member’s party fatally underestimated that when it increased the national insurance tax attached to jobs, which forced people who were contributing to the economy out of work and out of ...

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Wealth Taxation for Public Services

I do not have time, I am afraid—or I will take it, if I can get the time back.

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Wealth Taxation for Public Services

Growing the economy is the legitimate way of eradicating poverty. If we grew the economy, we would not need the burgeoning benefits bill that the SNP has presided over for the past 14 years.Mr Harvie might disagree, but I believe that there is a moral and social case for cutti...

Craig Hoy (Dumfriesshire) (Con) Con Chamber

Wealth Taxation for Public Services

I think that we all know why this debate is taking place: the SNP Government and John Swinney are in hock to the Scottish Green Party. A party that does not even believe in economic growth has influence, albeit now from outwith the Government, over the SNP Administration’s tax...

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Wealth Taxation for Public Services

Would Patrick Harvie concede the point that the very wealthy are also likely to be the most mobile and that they can therefore take their wealth and their assets out of Scotland?

Craig Hoy (Dumfriesshire) (Con) Con Chamber

Wealth Taxation for Public Services

I welcome the minister to her new role. How does she explain Scotland’s economic performance gap?

Craig Hoy (Dumfriesshire) (Con) Con Chamber

General Question Time · Bus Service Reliability (X74 Dumfries-Glasgow)

The transport secretary will be aware that people in Moffat and Dumfries are very concerned about the parlous state of bus services, particularly the X74. Last summer, the entire bus network across Dumfriesshire nearly fell apart when Stagecoach headed for the exit. That is a ...

Craig Hoy (Dumfriesshire) (Con) Con Chamber

Parliamentary Bureau Motions

I rise not to oppose the formation of committees but to challenge the Government over its latest attempt to undermine fair scrutiny of the decisions that it takes.The Scottish National Party has chosen to nominate one of its own as convener of the finance committee and to take...

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Independence Referendum

I had finished, Deputy Presiding Officer, but this gives me the opportunity to remind the Parliament that Mr Kirkwood did indeed support independence and continues to do so.

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Independence Referendum

I recall Thomas Kerr when he was supporting Penny Mordaunt and Jeremy Hunt, before he reinvented himself as the Reform Genghis Khan that he is now.Fundamentally, it is a sorry state of affairs that this is the first substantive debate that we are having in the new parliamentar...

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Independence Referendum

Presiding Officer, talking about cranks, I will take an intervention.

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Independence Referendum

Such is the member’s complacency that she does not realise that her party lost 400,000 votes over the past five years. I knocked on 10,000 doors and not one person brought up independence. People brought up the state of the roads and the state of the health service, the parlou...

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Independence Referendum

I will take Emma Roddick’s intervention.

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Independence Referendum

I will, in a moment.Those risks remain very real for those who live along the border. Had Reform handed the SNP my seat, could members imagine pro-UK voters living in Gretna looking their children and grandchildren in the eye and telling them that we put at risk their right to...

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Independence Referendum

In the recent election, in the south of Scotland, it was the Scottish Conservatives alone who stood up to the SNP and for Scotland’s place in our United Kingdom. Despite the First Minister’s best efforts, and those of his unwitting allies in Reform, the vitally important blue ...

Craig Hoy (Dumfriesshire) (Con) Con Chamber

Independence Referendum

Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I echo earlier comments in welcoming you to your new role and congratulating the presiding officers on their election. Although this is not my maiden speech, I also take the opportunity to pay tribute to my predecessor as MSP for Dumfriessh...

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Independence Referendum

Vote Reform to sit it out.

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Independence Referendum

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Independence Referendum

I thank Lord Offord for giving way. In this chamber, he promised the smack of firm opposition, so why is there no Reform amendment to the woeful SNP motion?

Craig Hoy (Dumfriesshire) (Con) Con Chamber

Independence Referendum

If Ross Greer believes in democracy and giving voters a choice, why did the Scottish Green Party stand in so few constituencies?

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Independence Referendum

I had finished, Deputy Presiding Officer, but this gives me the opportunity to remind the Parliament that Mr Kirkwood did indeed support independence and continues to do so.

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Independence Referendum

I recall Thomas Kerr when he was supporting Penny Mordaunt and Jeremy Hunt, before he reinvented himself as the Reform Genghis Khan that he is now.Fundamentally, it is a sorry state of affairs that this is the first substantive debate that we are having in the new parliamentar...

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Independence Referendum

Presiding Officer, talking about cranks, I will take an intervention.

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Independence Referendum

Such is the member’s complacency that she does not realise that her party lost 400,000 votes over the past five years. I knocked on 10,000 doors and not one person brought up independence. People brought up the state of the roads and the state of the health service, the parlou...

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Independence Referendum

I will take Emma Roddick’s intervention.

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Independence Referendum

I will, in a moment.Those risks remain very real for those who live along the border. Had Reform handed the SNP my seat, could members imagine pro-UK voters living in Gretna looking their children and grandchildren in the eye and telling them that we put at risk their right to...

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Independence Referendum

In the recent election, in the south of Scotland, it was the Scottish Conservatives alone who stood up to the SNP and for Scotland’s place in our United Kingdom. Despite the First Minister’s best efforts, and those of his unwitting allies in Reform, the vitally important blue ...

Craig Hoy (Dumfriesshire) (Con) Con Chamber

Independence Referendum

Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I echo earlier comments in welcoming you to your new role and congratulating the presiding officers on their election. Although this is not my maiden speech, I also take the opportunity to pay tribute to my predecessor as MSP for Dumfriessh...

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Independence Referendum

Vote Reform to sit it out.

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Independence Referendum

Craig Hoy Con Chamber

Independence Referendum

I thank Lord Offord for giving way. In this chamber, he promised the smack of firm opposition, so why is there no Reform amendment to the woeful SNP motion?

Craig Hoy (Dumfriesshire) (Con) Con Chamber

Independence Referendum

If Ross Greer believes in democracy and giving voters a choice, why did the Scottish Green Party stand in so few constituencies?

Craig Hoy (Dumfriesshire) (Con) Con Chamber

Oaths and Affirmations

I, Craig William Hoy, do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King Charles, his heirs and successors, according to law. So help me God.

Craig Hoy (Dumfriesshire) (Con) Con Chamber

Oaths and Affirmations

I, Craig William Hoy, do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King Charles, his heirs and successors, according to law. So help me God.

Craig Hoy (Dumfriesshire) (Con) Con Chamber

Oaths and Affirmations

I, Craig William Hoy, do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King Charles, his heirs and successors, according to law. So help me God.

Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Chamber

Building Safety Levy (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3

On a point of order, Presiding Officer. My app is frozen. I would have voted yes.

Craig Hoy Con Committee

Because you raised the point, I note that there has been, in the past, quite significant churn in the audit and risk committee. It is never particularly good to see that, because consistency is key in that kind of body. Are you pretty confident that you will not see similar ch...

Craig Hoy Con Committee

I recognise that you welcome the section 22 report, but Stephen Boyle said:“The SPPA needs to provide greater transparency”on its progress and“take action to address other issues regarding governance and transparency”.Having reviewed your letter, is there still work that you n...

Craig Hoy Con Committee

On the overambition, in the press release accompanying his report, the Auditor General said:“I’m concerned about the SPPA’s capacity to deliver outstanding remedy statements by the extended timescales.”However, in your letter to us, Dr Pathirana, you said:“We remain on track t...

Craig Hoy Con Committee

There was a period when you had to throw the kitchen sink at it and you were bringing lots of people in. Is that an admission that, perhaps, in the past, not enough was done to bring in staff who fully understood the roles that they were going to be asked to take on?

Craig Hoy Con Committee

What training and on-boarding is taking place for the 100 new members of staff who have been brought in on temporary contracts to ensure that they have the proficiency to deal with the sorts of inquiries that they may be dealing with? Are they dealing with the simpler end of t...

Craig Hoy Con Committee

For clarity, are all calls dealt with in-house? No external call centres or third-party agencies are being used.

Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Committee

Good morning. I want to delve a little deeper into the technical and emotional issues that have been raised, to try to make sure that there is no complacency or sense of overambition running through some of your answers.Thank you for the invitation to the next committee. If I ...

Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Chamber

Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3

On a point of order, Presiding Officer. I had a similar issue. I would have voted yes.

Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Chamber

Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3

On a point of order, Presiding Officer. My app was frozen, but I would have voted no.

Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Chamber

Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3

On a point of order, Presiding Officer. I apologise; I think that my app is as tired as Kenny Gibson. I would have voted no.

Craig Hoy Con Committee

Public Administration in the Scottish Government

: The convener talked earlier about the appetite for public sector reform. The Scottish Government committed £30 million to the invest-to-save scheme last year. I noticed that only 24 applications to the scheme were from the core Scottish civil service directorates and Governm...

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Chamber

Meeting of the Parliament 09 June 2026 [Last updated 15:32]

09 Jun 2026 · S7 · Meeting of the Parliament

Item of business

General Question Time

GP Walk-in Centres (North Ayrshire)

Hoy, Craig Con Dumfriesshire Watch on SPTV

It is 77 miles from Sanquhar to Stranraer, which is a journey that takes a minimum of two hours by car or at least four hours by bus. Given that my constituents will be expected to make that journey to access the GP walk-in centre in Stranraer, does that not expose the policy as being a pre-election ploy that was designed to distract attention away from a primary care system in crisis?

In the same item of business

Patricia Gibson (Cunninghame South) (SNP) SNP

To ask the Scottish Government when it expects a general practitioner walk-in centre to open in North Ayrshire. (S7O-00023)

The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Care (Angela Constance) SNP

I have committed to expanding the walk-in service programme and will set out how I will do so in the first 100 days of this Government. Health boards were pr...

Patricia Gibson SNP

North Ayrshire’s people have Scotland’s lowest healthy life expectancy. The average adult remains in full health until just 53 years old. More than 28 per ce...

Angela Constance SNP

Ms Gibson has made an important point about reducing health inequality by improving access to healthcare. The Government is committed to providing a North Ay...

Michelle Campbell (Renfrewshire North and Cardonald) (SNP) SNP

Work is well under way in preparation for Glasgow’s first walk-in clinic opening. Can the Scottish Government offer an update on when that wonderful resource...

Angela Constance SNP

I expect the Glasgow site to open later this month. I very much appreciate the health board’s hard work to get the services up and running. I am sure that Mi...

Craig Hoy (Dumfriesshire) (Con) Con

It is 77 miles from Sanquhar to Stranraer, which is a journey that takes a minimum of two hours by car or at least four hours by bus. Given that my constitue...

Angela Constance SNP

It is disappointing that Mr Hoy does not welcome the prospect of a GP walk-in service for Stranraer. The important point is that the purpose of GP walk-in se...