Bill Kidd MSP
Bill is MSP for Glasgow Anniesland. He previously represented the SNP as MSP for Glasgow Region (2007-11), and has also stood in numerous Parliamentary Elections, both Holyrood and Westminster.
He has also represented the SNP Trade Union Group on the Party's NEC.
His major political interests are the development of policies to eradicate poverty, job creation, housing policy and an end to the nuclear power and weapons programmes of successive British Governments.
News from Bill Kidd MSP
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Monday, 17 March 2008 |
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SNP MSP Bill Kidd has today called into question Labour’s plans for a skills bill as a senior academic endorsed the Scottish Government’s skills strategy and criticised the target led approach being adopted by Labour.
The Scottish Government launched a widely acclaimed skills strategy in September.
In an article in the Sunday Herald Professor Ewart Keep of the ESRC Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance backed the SNP’s 21st century strategy as he condemned Labour’s approach as “bizarre and short-sighted” and as "a clapped out old model, born of a cold-war mentality".
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Wednesday, 13 February 2008 |
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Scottish National Party MSP Bill Kidd has today backed calls for the use of Mosquito Ultrasonic Youth Deterrents to face stricter controls, if not an outright ban.
Mr Kidd, SNP MSP for Glasgow, who has raised the issue in Parliament on several occasions and met with Community Safety Minister Fergus Ewing to discuss the issue has now written to the Minister asking him to look further at a licensing scheme or a ban.
Mosquito devices emit a high frequency sound which can only be heard by people up to the age of 25. The sound is intended to drive away groups of young people from areas such as outside shops.
The sound can also be heard by younger children and infants.
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Saturday, 26 January 2008 |
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 SNP MSP Bill Kidd has welcomed the positive discussions that took place at a joint STUC and SCND conference in Glasgow today.
Mr Kidd who spoke at the event said: "Today’s discussions were very positive.
"The STUC and SCND have shown that if the UK Government was not spending billions of pounds on a new generation of nuclear weapons we could have significant investment in other parts of our economy.
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Sunday, 20 January 2008 |
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Glasgow SNP MSP Bill Kidd has expressed grave concern over changes to the funding threshold for the UK Labour Government's Independent Living Fund which will effectively threaten to deny thousands of disabled people the opportunity to live independent lives.
The Independent Living Fund is sponsored by the UK Department of Work and Pensions and currently, to qualify for assistance from the fund, a disabled person must be receiving £200 per week in personal care support from their local authority. This threshold will now rise to £320. A massive jump of 60%, when inflation is assessed at only 2%.
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