New Role for Mark
Mark Griffin MSP has been appointed Shadow Minister for Transport in the new shake-up of the Scottish Labour front bench.
Mark, elected in 2011, moves from his role as Shadow Minister for Sport to take up the larger role on the front bench. Mark has also retained his brief as Shadow Minister for Veterans Affairs.
Mark said:
"I am pleased to be taking on the role of Shadow Transport Minister and look forward to the challenges ahead.
"People in our community and across Scotland are enduring difficulties in accessing public transportation. Bus services are poor as a result of cuts to the Bus Service Operators Grant and the consistent underfunding of the concessionary travel scheme by the SNP Government. Furthermore, the once promising Edinburgh to Glasgow Improvement rail Programme (EGIP) has had its funding reduced to the tune of £350 million.
"We need high quality, efficient, transport links, which are not restrictive of postcode. We need to invest in our bus and rail network, not cut its funding, and we need to once again regulate our buses, something that my colleague Iain Gray MSP is seeking to address with his Regulation of Bus Services Bill, which I strongly support. I hope the SNP Government will take steps to improve services for people in communities like ours across Scotland, and I look forward to pushing the Minister on this in the coming months."
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