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Ballance, Chris

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Ballance, Chris

Former (left at end of session) Scottish Green Party South of Scotland

2003 Affirmation

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Divisions voted in
0
no votes on record
Party alignment
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not enough data
Attendance
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0 "Not Voted" of 0 divisions present
Motions lodged
103
191 questions · 0 unanswered
Hansard contributions
929
343 chamber · 586 committee
Allowances claimed
£0
0 transactions
Most-discussed topics in Hansard
bill ·94 stage ·71 inquiry ·51 transport ·49 business ·48 growth ·45 executive ·42 time ·41 guidance ·25 committees ·22 works ·19 legacy ·13
Recent motions & questions
Motion success

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

Lodged
103
Carried
0
Defeated
0
Not divided
103
Voice fingerprint

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

chapelcross eco-village executive's uranium crichton green tourism traffic reduction nuclear power voluntary arts wigtown depleted uranium stow
Career arc

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

  1. ☷
    Left Procedures Committee
    02 Apr 2007
  2. ☷
    Left Communities Committee
    02 Apr 2007
  3. ⌂
    Stood down from South of Scotland (Dissolution)
    02 Apr 2007
  4. –
    Left Scottish Green Party
    02 Apr 2007
  5. ☷
    Joined Procedures Committee as Member
    28 Jun 2006
  6. ☷
    Joined Communities Committee as Substitute Member
    28 Jun 2006
  7. ☷
    Left Audit Committee
    28 Jun 2006
  8. ☷
    Left Procedures Committee
    24 Mar 2006
  9. ☷
    Left Enterprise and Culture Committee
    22 Jun 2005
  10. ☷
    Joined Procedures Committee as Member
    22 Jun 2005
  11. ☷
    Joined Audit Committee as Substitute Member
    03 Sep 2003
  12. ☷
    Joined Enterprise and Culture Committee as Member
    04 Jun 2003
  13. ⌂
    Started representing South of Scotland
    01 May 2003
  14. +
    Joined Scottish Green Party
    01 May 2003
Who backs their motions most
Whose motions they back most
Recent contributions to the Official Report
  • Railways Chamber
    28 Mar 2007
    I will speak quickly in support of the motion in the name of my colleague Mark Ruskell. Communities throughout Scotland have campaigned hard to expand their lo…
  • SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE Chamber
    22 Mar 2007
    Some of us might think that stopping the intake of students represents a substantial change of approach. Be that as it may, it seemed clear from the earlier de…
  • SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE Chamber
    22 Mar 2007
    To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that it will be able to achieve a successful outcome to its negotiations about retaining a University of Gla…
  • Crichton University Campus Chamber
    22 Mar 2007
    Does the minister accept that there is a difference between higher and further education and, if so, does he accept that if one of those no longer takes place …
  • Crichton University Campus Chamber
    22 Mar 2007
    I congratulate Alasdair Morgan on securing today's debate. It is important that we have another debate on the subject because, although it has been only five w…
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