Stuart McMillan

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Stuart McMillan MSP


Deputy Convener of the Scottish Parliament Equal Opportunities Committee
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 June 2011
Preceded by	Marlyn Glen
Succeeded by	Marco Biagi
Member of the Scottish Parliament for West of Scotland
Incumbent
Assumed office 3 May 2007
Personal details
Born	1972 Barrow in Furness
Political party	Scottish National Party
Alma mater	Abertay University
Website	Official website

Stuart McMillan is a Greenock-based Scottish National Party Member of the Scottish Parliament for West of Scotland region.

He was elected during the 2007 election for the West of Scotland region, and re-elected in the 2011 election, where he contested the Greenock and Inverclyde constituency.

His constituency office is based in Greenock's Argyle Street.

Early life

Stuart McMillan was born in Barrow in Furness in Cumbria, England, in 1972. He moved to Inverclyde when he was a child, where he attended Port Glasgow High School.^[1] After attending Central College of Commerce, Glasgow, he studied at the University of Abertay in Dundee where he graduated with a BA (Hons) in European Business Management with Languages and latterly a MBA.^[2] Once graduated he worked for IBM before working for Scottish National Party central office in Westminster. Before being elected in 2007, he was office manager to Scottish National Party Member of the Scottish Parliament Bruce McFee.

Parliamentary Career

During his time as an MSP, Stuart McMillan has led campaigns on a number of issues in Inverclyde including a campaign to reduce the price of fuel in the area. He has also been very vocal in his support for action to be taken against the rise of fixed-odds betting terminals in the area and has also lobbied the Scottish Government for money to support flood prevention measures in Inverclyde.

In July 2014, following a previous unsuccessful bid by Inverclyde Council, the area was awarded £1.7million to help flood prevention. The award came after a personal meeting between Stuart McMillan and Scottish Government Ministers.^[3]

In 2014 he led a Members' Debate in the Scottish Parliament calling on the Scottish and Westminster Government's to take action on, what he described as "cash cows" for bookmakers.

At his request Inverclyde Council agreed to invite former gamblers into secondary schools to speak to pupils about the dangers of gambling. ^[4]

In 2014 he also led a Members' Debate in the Scottish Parliament on the increasing reliance of foodbanks in Scotland.

References

External links

Stuart McMillan MSPs Website

Members of the Scottish Parliament in the West Scotland region

Elected in the 2016 election

Constituency MSPs	Gil Paterson (SNP, Clydebank and Milngavie) Kenneth Gibson (SNP, Cunninghame North) Ruth Maguire (SNP, Cunninghame South) Jackie Baillie (Lab, Dumbarton) Jackson Carlaw (Con, Eastwood) Stuart McMillan (SNP, Greenock and Inverclyde) George Adam (SNP, Paisley) Derek Mackay (SNP, Renfrewshire North and West) Tom Arthur (SNP, Renfrewshire South) Rona Mackay (SNP, Strathkelvin and Bearsden)

Additional members	Neil Bibby (Lab) Maurice Corry (Con) Mary Fee (Lab) Maurice Golden (Con) Jamie Greene (Con) Ross Greer (Green) Ken Macintosh (Lab)

SNP (8 seats), Labour (4 seats), Conservative (4 seats), Green (1 seat)

Scottish National Party MSPs

Cabinet Secretaries	Nicola Sturgeon John Swinney Angela Constance Michael Matheson Keith Brown Richard Lochhead Shona Robison Roseanna Cunningham Fiona Hyslop Alex Neil

Ministers	Fergus Ewing Joe FitzPatrick Derek Mackay Annabelle Ewing Aileen Campbell Alasdair Allan Maureen Watt Jamie Hepburn Marco Biagi Margaret Burgess Paul Wheelhouse Humza Yousaf Aileen McLeod

Backbench	George Adam Clare Adamson Colin Beattie Willie Coffey Bruce Crawford Graeme Dey Nigel Don Bob Doris James Dornan Jim Eadie Linda Fabiani Kate Forbes Jeane Freeman Kenneth Gibson Jenny Gilruth Christine Grahame Emma Harper Clare Haughey Bill Kidd Richard Lyle Angus MacDonald Gordon MacDonald John Mason Stewart Maxwell Fulton MacGregor Joan McAlpine Mark McDonald Ivan McKee Christina McKelvie Fiona McLeod Stuart McMillan Gil Paterson Gail Ross Michael Russell Stewart Stevenson Kevin Stewart David Torrance Maree Todd Sandra White

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