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Baxter, Jayne

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Baxter, Jayne

Former (left at end of session) Scottish Labour Mid Scotland and Fife

Politically, you're most like Hilton, Cara Lab — similarity 81.7/100.

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Divisions voted in
390
last on 17 Mar 2016
Party alignment
99.5%
0.5% rebellion
Attendance
71.0%
159 "Not Voted" of 549 divisions present
Motions lodged
16
114 questions · 0 unanswered
Hansard contributions
589
187 chamber · 402 committee
Allowances claimed
£3,648
31 transactions
Most-discussed topics in Hansard
bill ·161 stage ·151 time ·62 children ·62 question ·61 young ·57 people ·56 portfolio ·45 draft ·37 social ·35 educational ·32 budget ·30
Recent motions & questions
  • Question
    S4O-05603 · 02 Mar 2016
  • Fairer Fife Commission Report, Fairness Matters Motion
    S4M-15040 · 24 Feb 2016
  • Question
    S4O-05505 · 03 Feb 2016
  • Question
    S4W-29383 · 29 Jan 2016
  • Question
    S4W-29382 · 29 Jan 2016
  • Question
    S4O-04865 · 26 Nov 2015
  • Question
    S4O-04775 · 11 Nov 2015
  • Question
    S4O-04754 · 05 Nov 2015
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
16
Carried
0
Defeated
0
Not divided
16
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).

named person mid fife home-start lochore kinship councillor fife mid gingerbread lochore meadows fife gingerbread fife council hearing-impaired community
Career arc

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

  1. ☷
    Left Health and Sport Committee
    23 Mar 2016
  2. ☷
    Left Local Government and Regeneration Committee
    23 Mar 2016
  3. ⌂
    Stood down from Mid Scotland and Fife (Dissolution)
    23 Mar 2016
  4. –
    Left Scottish Labour
    23 Mar 2016
  5. ☷
    Joined Health and Sport Committee as Substitute Member
    02 Sep 2015
  6. ☷
    Joined Local Government and Regeneration Committee as Member
    02 Sep 2015
  7. ☷
    Left Justice Committee
    02 Sep 2015
  8. ☷
    Left Equal Opportunities Committee
    02 Sep 2015
  9. ☷
    Joined Justice Committee as Member
    08 Jan 2015
  10. ☷
    Joined Equal Opportunities Committee as Member
    08 Jan 2015
  11. ☷
    Left Education and Culture Committee
    08 Jan 2015
  12. ☷
    Left Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee
    31 Oct 2013
  13. ☷
    Left Health and Sport Committee
    03 Sep 2013
  14. ☷
    Joined Education and Culture Committee as Member
    03 Sep 2013
  15. ☷
    Left National Trust for Scotland (Governance etc.) Bill Committee
    23 May 2013
  16. ☷
    Joined Health and Sport Committee as Substitute Member
    21 May 2013
  17. ☷
    Joined National Trust for Scotland (Governance etc.) Bill Committee as Deputy Convener
    26 Feb 2013
  18. ☷
    Left National Trust for Scotland (Governance etc.) Bill Committee
    26 Feb 2013
  19. ☷
    Joined National Trust for Scotland (Governance etc.) Bill Committee as Member
    23 Jan 2013
  20. ☷
    Joined Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee as Member
    12 Dec 2012
  21. ⌂
    Started representing Mid Scotland and Fife
    08 Dec 2012
  22. +
    Joined Scottish Labour
    08 Dec 2012
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Whose motions they back most
Recent contributions to the Official Report
  • Forth Road Bridge Inquiry Chamber
    15 Mar 2016
    No. I need to make progress. Although, as the minister told the committee, “It is hard to answer the what-if questions,”—Official Report, Infrastructure and …
  • Forth Road Bridge Inquiry Chamber
    15 Mar 2016
    In all honesty, minister, I am not in a position to answer that. I am not aware of any alternative proposals, but I do not have an encyclopaedic knowledge of e…
  • Forth Road Bridge Inquiry Chamber
    15 Mar 2016
    I am pleased to speak in the debate as a representative of Mid Scotland and Fife, where residents and businesses suffered inconvenience, stress and financial h…
  • Portfolio Question Time Chamber
    02 Mar 2016
    I thank the minister for that response. Is he aware that the Scottish National Party’s council budget in Clackmannanshire has imposed across-the-board cuts of …
  • Portfolio Question Time Chamber
    02 Mar 2016
    To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure that front-line patient and carer support from alternative care providers can be maintained, in the light of …
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