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09 November 2023 - 29 October 2024
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18 June 2024 - 20 June 2024
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13 September 2023 - 17 June 2024
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31 March 2022 - 16 November 2023
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31 March 2022 - 13 September 2023
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18 January 2022 - 31 March 2022
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05 March 2020 - 04 May 2021
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13 September 2018 - 04 May 2021
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12 September 2018 - 25 April 2019
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06 September 2018 - 13 September 2018
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08 June 2016 - 06 September 2018
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30 March 2017 - 24 May 2018
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06 September 2016 - 30 March 2017
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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.
Chamber meeting date: 20 November 2025
3. Ruth Maguire (Cunninghame South) (SNP): "To ask the Scottish Government when the Children (Scotland) Act 2020 will be fully implemented. (S6O-05173)"
Chamber meeting date: 13 November 2025
Ruth Maguire (Cunninghame South) (SNP): "I understand where Patrick Harvie is coming from, but should the systems that we put in place not be based on principle rather than on the type of belief that somebody has?"
Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee meeting date: 13 November 2025
Ruth Maguire (Cunninghame South) (SNP): "Good morning. Thank you for being with us. Section 1 of the bill proposes an amendment to the general entitlement by inserting a presumption in favour of disclosure. Most respondents to the committee’s call for views were in favour of that…
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee meeting date: 12 November 2025
Ruth Maguire (Cunninghame South) (SNP): "Good morning. I have some questions around communication. First, I welcome the clarity of your statement this morning and the acknowledgement that, previously, mixed messages were coming out of Police Scotland…
Chamber meeting date: 6 November 2025
Ruth Maguire (Cunninghame South) (SNP): "This week, I met a community group with a particular interest in restoring the pilot house…
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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
Submitted by: Daniel Johnson, Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour. Date lodged: Monday, November 17, 2025
Supported by: Pam Duncan-Glancy
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Result 61 for, 57 against, 0 abstained, 11 did not vote
MSP voted against
Agreed
Submitted by: Miles Briggs, Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party. Date lodged: Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Result 53 for, 63 against, 0 abstained, 13 did not vote
MSP voted against
Disagreed
Submitted by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, Glasgow, Scottish Labour. Date lodged: Monday, November 17, 2025
Supported by: Paul Sweeney, Martin Whitfield
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Result 63 for, 54 against, 1 abstained, 11 did not vote
MSP voted for
Agreed
Submitted by: Ben Macpherson, Edinburgh Northern and Leith, Scottish National Party. Date lodged: Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Supported by: Natalie Don-Innes, Kate Forbes, Jenny Gilruth
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Result 58 for, 60 against, 0 abstained, 11 did not vote
MSP voted for
Disagreed
Find out what motions Ruth Maguire has submitted recently.
These are the questions that this MSP has asked in Parliament. It also includes any answer to those questions.
Asked by: Ruth Maguire, Cunninghame South, Scottish National Party
Date lodged:19 November 2025
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 November 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government whether patient complaints and feedback about the care they have received from NHS boards are used to inform inspections undertaken by Health Improvement Scotland."
Asked by: Ruth Maguire, Cunninghame South, Scottish National Party
Date lodged:12 November 2025
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 20 November 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government when the Children (Scotland) Act 2020 will be fully implemented."
Asked by: Ruth Maguire, Cunninghame South, Scottish National Party
Date lodged:1 October 2025
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 8 October 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government what representations NGOs have made to it regarding its work to support humanitarian assistance in Palestine."
Asked by: Ruth Maguire, Cunninghame South, Scottish National Party
Date lodged:8 September 2025
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 11 September 2025
"To ask the First Minister, in light of reports of the rising rate of poverty for families with a baby under one and new evidence from Save the Children that increasing Best Start Grant and Best Start Foods payments could significantly reduce the child poverty rate for this priority group, whether the Scottish Government will consider increasing…
Asked by: Ruth Maguire, Cunninghame South, Scottish National Party
Date lodged:3 September 2025
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 10 September 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government what work it is doing to support sustainable farming and food production that is based on improving biodiversity."
Asked by: Ruth Maguire, Cunninghame South, Scottish National Party
Date lodged:23 July 2025
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 8 August 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the report, Forensic Science in England and Wales: Pulling Out of the Graveyard Spiral, published on 9 June 2025 by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Miscarriages of Justice, which highlighted shortcomings with forensic science capabilities in England and Wales that could make miscarriages of…
Asked by: Ruth Maguire, Cunninghame South, Scottish National Party
Date lodged:28 July 2025
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 8 August 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government, when bail conditions for a perpetrator of domestic abuse are considered, what regard is given to the views of the victim; how any views and information provided by the victim are collected, and what the rights of the victim are with regard to access to information on the bail conditions of the perpetrator."
Asked by: Ruth Maguire, Cunninghame South, Scottish National Party
Date lodged:28 July 2025
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 1 August 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government how many bail-related offences were associated with an original charge of domestic abuse in 2023-24."
Asked by: Ruth Maguire, Cunninghame South, Scottish National Party
Date lodged:28 July 2025
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 1 August 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government how many times an individual, who was arrested for domestic abuse offences and then released from police custody with conditions or an undertaking, breached those conditions or that undertaking, in 2023-24."
Asked by: Ruth Maguire, Cunninghame South, Scottish National Party
Date lodged:30 October 2024
Current Status: Answered by Dorothy Bain on 11 November 2024
"To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-29907 by Dorothy Bain on 26 September 2024, how many contracts and service level agreements for pathology and mortuary services the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has; whether all contracts and service level agreements require pathologists to meet with the…