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Meeting of the Parliament 17 March 2026 [Draft]

17 Mar 2026 · S6 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
Topical Question Time
Cost of Living (Support for Families)
Martin, Gillian SNP Aberdeenshire East Watch on SPTV

It is rural areas of Scotland that have the most to gain from the development of renewables. If the SNP Scottish Government had not stayed the course in our ambition on renewable energy, electricity generation would be in a far more precarious situation than the one that we are in right now.

By expanding the renewables sector and its wider supply chain, not only will we strengthen our energy independence and security, we will ensure that we are less reliant on imported fuels and on global fossil fuel markets, which we do not control. Global events dictate prices in fossil fuel markets, so protecting Scottish consumers from situations such as the one that we are currently experiencing as a result of the global crisis is a mission that this Government will continue.

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2. Alasdair Allan (Na h-Eileanan an Iar) (SNP) SNP
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update regarding the steps being taken to support families with the cost of living, in light of the...
Gillian Martin (Aberdeenshire East) (SNP) SNP
The United Kingdom Government has been painfully slow to act on the matter, given that heating oil prices had already doubled before its intervention yesterd...
Alasdair Allan SNP
In my constituency, more than 86 per cent of homes are off the gas grid, and some 46 per cent are heated with oil. Given that critics have warned that Keir S...
Gillian Martin SNP
I absolutely agree with Alasdair Allan on all the points that he has made. Developing global events only reinforce the need to put in place robust and effect...
Alasdair Allan SNP
I welcome the Scottish Government’s work to support households and families across Scotland with the cost of living, in stark contrast, it would seem, to the...
Gillian Martin SNP
I agree with all the points that Dr Allan makes. Our island and rural communities already face significant challenges, which have been disproportionately imp...
Tim Eagle (Highlands and Islands) (Con) Con
Isn’t it crazy? People across Scotland are suffering with heating oil prices and we are here talking about independence. This is just the Scottish National P...
The Presiding Officer NPA
Let us hear one another.
Tim Eagle Con
Let me get to my constituents, who are deeply troubled. It is great that we have extra money coming in from the Scottish Government, and I applaud that, but ...
Gillian Martin SNP
I do not know whether Tim Eagle was listening to anything I was saying, rather than frothing at the mouth. I said that, given the urgency of the problem, we ...
Emma Harper (South Scotland) (SNP) SNP
Almost 40 per cent of households in Dumfries and Galloway rely on heating oil and are therefore particularly exposed to global price volatility. Does the cab...
Gillian Martin SNP
It is rural areas of Scotland that have the most to gain from the development of renewables. If the SNP Scottish Government had not stayed the course in our ...