Join the Campaign for a Leith Museum!

I've been in touch with a number of local groups who are keen to set up a Leith museum and we've launched a campaign to try and make this a reality. Click here for more information. 

Mark has welcomed the publication of the UK Government's Draft Marine Bill (which can be downloaded here). The Bill has been published in draft so it will be subject to consultation. Mark is interested in hearing from constituents so if you do have any views on this then please do get in touch.

Mark has taken a keen interest in environmental issues and in 2006 won a prestigious Parliamentary award for his work in promoting renewable energy, principally for the work on his successful Private Members' Bill, the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act. Mark is also a member of the Environmental Audit Select Committee which has looked at a number of high profile environmental issues recently.

Locally, Mark has been working to promote the Edinburgh Community Energy Project to engage the local community in tackling climate change. For more on Mark's work on environment issues, both in Parliament and in the constituency, click here. 

As your local MP, Mark can often help with problems you may have with Government, with other public bodies, and sometimes with other businesses and organisations. For more information on how Mark can help you, click here.

Mark has achieved success on a future change in the law on marine oil transfers. Following the campaigning on Mark's Private Members’ bill, the Environmental Protection (Transfers at Sea) Bill, the UK Government has announced moves to improve the regulation of potentially damaging ship to ship oil transfers around the UK.

In a debate on Mark’s Private Members’ bill on 25 January, the Shipping Minister, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, promised to consult on legislation to regulate ship-to-ship transfers of cargoes of oil or other hazardous substances in United Kingdom waters.

The Minister said that the consultation exercise would be timetabled to commence in the Spring and that changes to the law would go before Parliament during the Summer.

You can find more information about the Bill campaign on ship-to-ship transfers here