Alex Rowley

25 Mar 2026   General Question Time

Does the minister accept that funding for Forth Valley College needs to increase year on year? Otherwise, we will be in the same position next year and the following year, with the Alloa campus facing the threat of closure. Does the Scotti…

25 Mar 2026   General Question Time (draft)

Does the minister accept that funding for Forth Valley College needs to increase year on year? Otherwise, we will be in the same position next year and the following year, with the Alloa campus facing the threat of closure. Does the Scotti…

24 Mar 2026   Sport and Activity as a Force for Good (draft)

I am pleased to speak in Brian Whittle’s members’ business debate. When I saw the motion, I thought, “That’s the one I’ll make my final speech as an MSP in.” I know, from serving on committees with Brian over the past 10 years since he ent…

17 Mar 2026   Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill (draft)

First, I acknowledge every person who has taken the time to contact me to set out their views on the bill. Without doubt, this bill has generated more correspondence than anything else that I have dealt with in the 12 years that I have bee…

17 Mar 2026   Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill

First, I acknowledge every person who has taken the time to contact me to set out their views on the bill. Without doubt, this bill has generated more correspondence than anything else that I have dealt with in the 12 years that I have bee…

4 Mar 2026   Portfolio Question Time

I hope that the minister agrees that we need to create a proper career structure for care workers across Scotland to make it attractive for people in Scotland to become carers. The story of care workers in Scotland so far is one of being u…

4 Mar 2026   Portfolio Question Time

To ask the Scottish Government what progress it is making on tackling the reported critical shortage of social care workers. (S6O-05588)

18 Feb 2026   Mossmorran (Just Transition Fund)

Thankfully, we have not had too much party politicking in this debate—except from David Torrance and his friends on the Tory benches.I want to impress that what we need in Scotland is an industrial strategy. Like Willie Rennie, I live just…

17 Feb 2026   Topical Question Time

I welcome the fact that the minister says that her officials are going to meet Marie Curie, because the organisation is very clear that the situation does not need to be this way and it is calling for legislation to enshrine in law a right…

17 Feb 2026   Topical Question Time

Marie Curie said that, without action, the number of people dying in Scotland with unmet palliative care needs will continue to increase. I believe that, over the recent period, in relation to the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (…

17 Feb 2026   Topical Question Time

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to new figures on unmet need for palliative care that were published by Marie Curie on 16 February, showing that almost one in three people in Scotland die with unmet palliative care need…

5 Feb 2026   General Question Time

After two decades of broken promises, I am sure that the health secretary will understand why the people of Lochgelly will be hesitant to welcome this project. However, I hope that we are going in the right direction and that it will happe…

15 Jan 2026   UEFA European Championship (Scotland) Bill

As Patrick Harvie said, the bill is largely technical, and it is difficult to get too worked up about the technicalities. Stephen Kerr mentioned the constructive approach that has been taken to the bill. I only wish that our politics and …

14 Jan 2026   Deputy First Minister Responsibilities, Economy and Gaelic

As I understand it, the first meeting of the task force will be on 28 January in Fife. Does the Scottish Government believe that there is an industrial future for the Mossmorran site once we get past supporting—rightly—the workforce who ar…

14 Jan 2026   Deputy First Minister Responsibilities, Economy and Gaelic

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the progress that it is making in supporting the Fife Council-led Mossmorran task force. (S6O-05355)

6 Jan 2026   Swimming Pools

There is a consensus here that more needs to happen around swimming. However, from the public’s point of view, the real challenge is not what we talk about in debates, but what happens outside them. That is a question that the public incre…

18 Dec 2025   General Question Time

Since SRUC took over the Elmwood campus, courses and facilities have been gutted. There has been a college in North East Fife since 1953. Will the minister agree to meet the local groups that have formed and that are concerned that there w…

18 Dec 2025   General Question Time

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the on-going reduction to both provision and facilities at the Elmwood campus of Scotland’s Rural College in Cupar, what its position is on the future of the college’s base in the North East Fife…

11 Dec 2025   General Question Time

The college projects that it will be millions of pounds in the red. A feasibility study will, in itself, still need resources. In its recent publication on the draft budget, Colleges Scotland highlighted that, under the current model, the…

11 Dec 2025   General Question Time

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on what action it has taken to support Forth Valley College’s Alloa campus, in light of the recent reported concerns that it may be closed for financial reasons. (S6O-05275)