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Scanlon, Mary

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MSP profile

Scanlon, Mary

Politically, you're most like Goldie, Annabel Con — similarity 81.6/100.

Divisions voted in
775
last on 17 Mar 2016
Party alignment
99.6%
0.4% rebellion
Attendance
94.7%
43 "Not Voted" of 818 divisions present
Motions lodged
253
4,514 questions · 0 unanswered
Hansard contributions
8,742
2,555 chamber · 6,187 committee
Allowances claimed
£0
0 transactions
Recent motions & questions
  • Dealing with Mental Health Issues in the next Parliamentary Session Motion
    S4M-16043 · 23 Mar 2016
  • Question
    S4O-05699 · 23 Mar 2016
  • Question
    S4W-30249 · 22 Mar 2016
  • Question
    S4W-30398 · 21 Mar 2016
  • Question
    S4W-30397 · 21 Mar 2016
  • Question
    S4W-30390 · 21 Mar 2016
  • Question
    S4W-30389 · 21 Mar 2016
  • Question
    S4W-30388 · 21 Mar 2016
Recent rebellions

Divisions where they voted against their party's majority position.

Motion success

Of the motions they've lodged that went to a vote, how often did the chamber agree.

Lodged
253
Carried
1
Defeated
16
Not divided
236

Of the 17 motions that went to a vote, 5.9% were carried.

Closest voting allies

MSPs who voted the same way most often across shared divisions.

Furthest apart on votes

MSPs they vote against most often.

MSPs like this one

Composite of voting agreement, sponsorship overlap, and Hansard topic affinity. Weighted 50 / 25 / 25.

Voice fingerprint

Words and phrases this MSP uses far more often than the chamber average (TF-IDF over their Hansard contributions).

Career arc

Unified timeline: party joinings, seat changes, committee appointments, ministerial roles.

  1. Left Public Audit Committee
    23 Mar 2016
  2. Left Education and Culture Committee
    23 Mar 2016
  3. Stood down from Highlands and Islands (Dissolution)
    23 Mar 2016
  4. Left Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
    23 Mar 2016
  5. Left Interests of Members of the Scottish Parliament (Amendment) Bill Committee
    17 Dec 2015
  6. Joined Interests of Members of the Scottish Parliament (Amendment) Bill Committee as Member
    22 Sep 2015
  7. Left Education and Culture Committee
    27 Feb 2014
  8. Joined Education and Culture Committee as Member
    27 Feb 2014
  9. Joined Education and Culture Committee as Substitute Member
    01 Feb 2012
  10. Joined Public Audit Committee as Deputy Convener
    23 Nov 2011
  11. Left Public Audit Committee
    23 Nov 2011
  12. Joined Public Audit Committee as Member
    16 Nov 2011
  13. Left Health and Sport Committee
    16 Nov 2011
  14. Joined Health and Sport Committee as Member
    01 Jun 2011
  15. Started representing Highlands and Islands
    05 May 2011
  16. +
    Joined Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
    05 May 2011
  17. Left Health and Sport Committee
    22 Mar 2011
  18. Left Equal Opportunities Committee
    22 Mar 2011
  19. Stood down from Highlands and Islands (Dissolution)
    22 Mar 2011
  20. Left Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
    22 Mar 2011
  21. Joined Equal Opportunities Committee as Substitute Member
    27 Jun 2007
  22. Joined Health and Sport Committee as Member
    13 Jun 2007
  23. Started representing Highlands and Islands
    03 May 2007
  24. +
    Joined Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
    03 May 2007
  25. Left Health Committee
    07 Apr 2006
  26. Left Communities Committee
    07 Apr 2006
  27. Stood down from Highlands and Islands (Resigned)
    07 Apr 2006
  28. Left Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
    07 Apr 2006
  29. Joined Health Committee as Substitute Member
    17 Mar 2005
  30. Left Finance Committee
    08 Oct 2003
  31. Joined Finance Committee as Substitute Member
    03 Sep 2003
  32. Joined Communities Committee as Member
    04 Jun 2003
  33. Started representing Highlands and Islands
    01 May 2003
  34. +
    Joined Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
    01 May 2003
  35. Left Health and Community Care Committee
    31 Mar 2003
  36. Stood down from Highlands and Islands (Dissolution)
    31 Mar 2003
  37. Left Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
    31 Mar 2003
  38. Joined Health and Community Care Committee as Member
    17 Jun 1999
  39. Started representing Highlands and Islands
    06 May 1999
  40. +
    Joined Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
    06 May 1999
Recent contributions to the Official Report
  • Portfolio Question Time Chamber
    23 Mar 2016
    How can it be socially just when councils pay about £470 a week for a placement in a care home but a self-funding placement costs well over £1,000? As this is …
  • Portfolio Question Time Chamber
    23 Mar 2016
    I thank David McLaren in the chamber desk team for randomly selecting me for this question, given that I have been complaining about not being selected for the…
  • Portfolio Question Time Chamber
    23 Mar 2016
    To ask the Scottish Government whether it complies with its social justice policy objectives for self-funding older people in residential care to pay more than…
  • Portfolio Question Time Chamber
    16 Mar 2016
    I have an email from West Highland College, which says that it is unable to sign up to the current national bargaining initiative because it threatens the coll…
  • Annual Report Committee
    09 Mar 2016
    When I came here in 1999, David McLetchie was my leader. He offered me the Health and Community Care Committee. I said, “I don’t know much about it. I go to th…
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