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From 1997-1999 he was the Parlimentary Private Secretary to the pro-nuclear Dr Jack Cunningham MP. | From 1997-1999 he was the Parlimentary Private Secretary to the pro-nuclear Dr Jack Cunningham MP. | ||
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He stood down from the Scottish Parliament at the May 2007 election and the seat was taken by Iain Gray. | He stood down from the Scottish Parliament at the May 2007 election and the seat was taken by Iain Gray. | ||
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John Robertson[1] was an MSP, representing the people of East Lothian for 26 years, first at Westminster and then at Holyrood. His constituency included the Torness nuclear power station near Dunbar.
From 1997-1999 he was the Parlimentary Private Secretary to the pro-nuclear Dr Jack Cunningham MP.
He is now (?) the Convener of the Cross Party Group on the Civil Nuclear Industry at the Scottish Parliament.
According to WikiPedia:
"After his election to the Scottish Parliament in 1999, Home-Robertson was the Scottish Executive Deputy Minister for Rural Affairs, with responsibility for fisheries and forestry in the late Donald Dewar's administration. In 2001 he took on convenership of the Holyrood Progress Group, which had responsibility for overseeing the completion of the Scottish Parliament Building project. He was a member of the Communities Committee and the European and External Relations Committee in the Parliament."
He stood down from the Scottish Parliament at the May 2007 election and the seat was taken by Iain Gray.
References
- ↑ see John Robertson
