John Finnie

Highlands and Islands

John is a former police officer and was a Highlands and Islands MSP from 2011-2021.

He was a member of Holyrood's Justice and Rural Economy committees. He successfully campaigned against deploying armed police to routine incidents, work for which he was awarded “Community Politician of the Year 2014”. He has campaigned against cuts to local education and medical services, police control rooms and Citizen’s Advice Bureaux and for public ownership of Calmac Ferries and the railways. He has also pushed for ethical investment of public funds and against ship to ship oil transfers of oil in the Moray Firth.

Finnie calls for acceleration of Green Bus Fund

Sun 26 Nov, 2017

FMQs: Green MSP raises ScotRail voluntary redundancy issue

Thu 16 Nov, 2017

Stepping up demands for at least ten per cent of the transport budget to go into walking and cycling

Tue 31 Oct, 2017

Our updated Active Travel policy shows our commitment to making communities safer and healthier

John Finnie Fri 27 Oct, 2017

Last weekend at our autumn conference our members overwhelmingly backed an updated transport policy which aims to enable higher levels of walking and cycling - otherwise known as active travel - in Scotland. It means we are leading the change towards tackling the rising costs to the NHS of diseases caused by air pollution and inactivity, while also reducing congestion and making our roads safer.

Finnie to lodge Member’s Bill to give children Equal Protection from assault, after securing support from across Holyrood's five parties

Thu 26 Oct, 2017

Greens welcome government support for Equal Protection bill

Fri 20 Oct, 2017

FMQs: SNP asked to explain environmental court snub

Thu 5 Oct, 2017

Forget air tax cuts, let's invest in the public transport we all use

John Finnie Fri 29 Sep, 2017

Rail passengers in Scotland will see another rise in regulated rail fares from January next year, this time by 3.6%. So when I heard that the Scottish Government was to announce a transport policy aimed at reducing fares, I thought great! Only, this wasn’t for public transport, but airline tickets.

Transport Scotland report highlights policy mistakes say Greens

Tue 26 Sep, 2017

Programme for Government shows Green influence but ministers must go further to make Scotland fairer

Tue 5 Sep, 2017