Scottish Green Party
MSP for Highlands and Islands (Region) 2021 - present day
The Scottish Parliament
Edinburgh
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29 April 2025 - 02 September 2025
Substitute Member
01 February 2023 - 29 April 2025
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21 May 2021 - 01 July 2024
Scottish Green Party
29 November 2023 - 18 June 2024
Substitute Member
17 June 2021 - 01 February 2023
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17 June 2021 - 22 June 2021
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These are the official transcripts of what was said by this MSP in the chamber and at committee meetings. You'll find the topic discussed and how many times this MSP has contributed to the discussion.
Rural Affairs and Islands Committee meeting date: 19 November 2025
Ariane Burgess (Highlands and Islands) (Green): "Greens have lodged a series of amendments on targets to improve the state of key habitats and species. Scotland has world-famous iconic species, and people travel from around the globe to view our wild places. We must do what we can to protect them…
Chamber meeting date: 18 November 2025
Ariane Burgess (Highlands and Islands) (Green): "As a representative of hundreds of coastal communities across the Highlands and Islands, I whole-heartedly share the Scottish Government’s condemnation of the allocation that Scotland has received through the UK fishing and coastal growth fund…
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee meeting date: 18 November 2025
The Convener: "The next item on our agenda is a round-table discussion on the Scottish Government’s draft climate change plan, with a focus on the buildings element of the plan as well as the role of local authorities…
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee meeting date: 18 November 2025
The Convener (Ariane Burgess): "Good morning, and welcome to the 29th meeting in 2025 of the Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee. We are joined online by Fulton MacGregor this morning, and Evelyn Tweed and Meghan Gallacher have given their apologies…
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee meeting date: 18 November 2025
The Convener: "Agenda item 3 is formal consideration of two negative instruments."
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Submitted by: Graeme Dey, Angus South, Scottish National Party. Date lodged: Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Result 88 for, 26 against, 1 abstained, 14 did not vote
MSP voted for
Agreed
Submitted by: Graeme Dey, Angus South, Scottish National Party. Date lodged: Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Result 89 for, 26 against, 1 abstained, 13 did not vote
MSP voted for
Agreed
Submitted by: Jenny Gilruth, Mid Fife and Glenrothes, Scottish National Party. Date lodged: Friday, November 21, 2025
Supported by: Natalie Don-Innes, Ben Macpherson
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Result 66 for, 29 against, 21 abstained, 13 did not vote
MSP voted for
Agreed
Submitted by: Graeme Dey, Angus South, Scottish National Party. Date lodged: Monday, November 24, 2025
Supported by: Ivan McKee, Shona Robison, John Swinney
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Result 88 for, 22 against, 0 abstained, 19 did not vote
MSP voted for
Agreed
Submitted by: Jenny Gilruth, Mid Fife and Glenrothes, Scottish National Party. Date lodged: Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Supported by: Natalie Don-Innes, Ben Macpherson
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Result 64 for, 53 against, 1 abstained, 11 did not vote
MSP voted for
Agreed
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These are the questions that this MSP has asked in Parliament. It also includes any answer to those questions.
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: 14 November 2025
Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 25 November 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government what (a) scientific and (b) other advice led to the decision to license at least 26 vessels in each of the last five razor clam electro-fishery trial seasons."
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: 11 November 2025
Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 25 November 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government, in light of Oceana UK's recently published research into the impact of offshore oil and gas projects on marine life, what steps it is undertaking to ensure that Scotland's Marine Protected Areas network is protected from any future disturbances by new oil and gas developments."
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: 12 November 2025
Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 25 November 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government, in light of Oceana UK's recently published research into the impact of offshore oil and gas projects on marine life, whether it plans to oppose any proposed new oil and gas developments in Scotland's seas."
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: 11 November 2025
Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 25 November 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics for 2024, which showed an increasing trend of job losses across the fishing industry, and in light of reports of collapsing stocks of Northern Shelf cod and mackerel, how it will ensure that money coming into the sector through the Fishing and Coastal Growth Fund will…
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: 24 November 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 9 December 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answers to questions S6W-41434 and S6W-41435 by Mairi McAllan on 18 November 2025 and S6W-41436 on 19 November 2025, whether it plans to introduce the bespoke statutory accommodation standards for all seasonal workers in the current parliamentary session; if so, by what date it needs to complete its…
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: 24 November 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 9 December 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the University of Stirling's recently published research on the positive benefits of beaver-created wetlands on pollinator numbers, what financial incentives it provides for landowners to accommodate beaver wetlands."
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: 24 November 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 9 December 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the Less Favoured Area Support Scheme excludes farmers and crofters who do not have livestock but who meet all of the scheme's criteria, and what assessment it has made of any divergence from EU rules, as outlined in article 31 of the EU Rural Development Regulations, that its application of the scheme…
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: 10 November 2025
Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 24 November 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to use the Fishing and Coastal Growth Fund to drive growth and sustainability in coastal communities and the fishing sector, and how it expects the fund will halt or reverse the decline in the number of (a) fishers and (b) fishing vessels, as outlined in the recent Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics for…
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: 19 November 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 4 December 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government how many times the Deer Code has been used to inform action of the ground by NatureScot to reduce deer (a) numbers and (b) damage."
Asked by: Ariane Burgess, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: 19 November 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 4 December 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government whether NatureScot will carry out a review of the current Deer Code and how effective its implementation has been by the agency before a new Deer Code is produced, as proposed by part 4 of the Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill."
See all of Ariane Burgess's questions submitted in Parliament