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Wilson, Bill

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Wilson, Bill

Former (left at end of session) Scottish National Party West of Scotland
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Divisions voted in
0
no votes on record
Party alignment
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Attendance
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0 "Not Voted" of 0 divisions present
Motions lodged
187
101 questions · 0 unanswered
Hansard contributions
1,307
199 chamber · 1,108 committee
Allowances claimed
£0
0 transactions
Most-discussed topics in Hansard
bill ·223 stage ·220 environment ·100 wildlife ·99 natural ·99 budget ·64 fisheries ·54 marine ·53 draft ·42 reform ·41 2010-11 ·36 scrutiny ·35
Recent motions & questions
Motion success

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

Lodged
187
Carried
0
Defeated
0
Not divided
187
Voice fingerprint

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

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Career arc

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

  1. ☷
    Left Rural Affairs and Environment Committee
    22 Mar 2011
  2. ☷
    Left European and External Relations Committee
    22 Mar 2011
  3. ⌂
    Stood down from West of Scotland (Dissolution)
    22 Mar 2011
  4. –
    Left Scottish National Party
    22 Mar 2011
  5. ☷
    Left Equal Opportunities Committee
    23 Sep 2010
  6. ☷
    Joined European and External Relations Committee as Member
    01 Jul 2010
  7. ☷
    Left Public Petitions Committee
    03 Jun 2010
  8. ☷
    Joined Equal Opportunities Committee as Substitute Member
    03 Jun 2010
  9. ☷
    Joined Public Petitions Committee as Substitute Member
    05 Nov 2009
  10. ☷
    Left Equal Opportunities Committee
    05 Nov 2009
  11. ☷
    Joined Rural Affairs and Environment Committee as Member
    13 Jun 2007
  12. ☷
    Joined Equal Opportunities Committee as Member
    13 Jun 2007
  13. ⌂
    Started representing West of Scotland
    03 May 2007
  14. +
    Joined Scottish National Party
    03 May 2007
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Whose motions they back most
Recent contributions to the Official Report
  • Scottish Executive Question Time Chamber
    22 Mar 2011
    Is the Government willing to amend the drugs strategy, acknowledging that addiction and recovery from addiction are socially determined phenomena, which requir…
  • Scottish Executive Question Time Chamber
    22 Mar 2011
    5. To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the view of the Canadian expert on addiction, Professor Bruce K Alexander, and of many Scottish drugs…
  • Higher Education Funding Chamber
    16 Mar 2011
    What lessons does the Scottish Government draw from the paper by Timothy Noah entitled “The Great Divergence”, in which he attributes 30 per cent of the rise i…
  • Scotland Bill Chamber
    10 Mar 2011
    On a point of order, Presiding Officer. It is not clear what Iceland has to do with the motion.
  • Scottish Executive Question Time Chamber
    10 Mar 2011
    On a point of order, Presiding Officer. Can you provide clarification, even at a later date, as to why I cannot ask the Government for its views of and positio…
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