Active Travel
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Chris Murray
Labour Party MP for Edinburgh East and Musselburgh since (elected). An MP continuously since .
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269
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Register entries
3
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Declared while sitting for Labour
£19,970
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Party affiliation
| Party | Office | Area | Period | Began | Ended | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | MP | Edinburgh East and Musselburgh | – present | elected | — | Party history |
Parliament's party history for this member: Labour ( – present).
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| Date | Category | Entry | Declared value | Sitting for | Source |
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| 3. Gifts, UK sources | The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo - £470.00 | £470 | Labour | Register record | |
| 2. Donations and support | Refugee, Asylum and Migration Policy Project (RAMP) - £6,500.00 | £6,500 | Labour | Register record | |
| 2. Donations and support | Refugee, Asylum and Migration Policy Project (RAMP) - £13,000.00 | £13,000 | Labour | Register record |
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Active Travel
The Tour de France starts in my constituency in July. Portobello high school’s Girls Gone Cycling project has already got over 70 girls on to bikes, and it is now being extended across Scotland. The grand départ trophy visited Portobello this month to mark the race’s first start in Scotland and to recognise the girls’ excellent work. What are the Government doing to capture that energy and inspire the next generation of cyclists? May I invite Ministers to Edinburgh in this Tour de France year to meet our impressive cyclists?
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Business of the House
Bonfire night can be difficult in Edinburgh, and previous years have seen serious disruption and pretty terrifying antisocial behaviour in Niddrie and Craigmillar. I have been working closely with the police for months and with the Hays Community Hub, Sandy’s Community Centre and many other groups across Craigmillar and Niddrie to keep disruption this year to a minimum, backed by £20 million from the UK Government’s Pride in Place funding. Will my right hon. Friend support a debate on how we back community organisations to tackle antisocial behaviour around bonfire night?
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Budget Resolutions
Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
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Budget Resolutions
Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
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Budget Resolutions
I am so pleased to support a Labour Budget that is backing Scotland and backing Edinburgh, despite the best efforts of the SNP to talk down its benefits and talk down my city. In particular, I welcome the announcement, which is of importance to my constituency, of £18 million for a UK advance chip design academy at Edinburgh University. That is how we build hope for the future. Modern iPhones contain at least a dozen chips designed in Edinburgh, and Edinburgh researchers helped to design a crucial sensor used in iPhone cameras, billions of which are now produced worldwide. Consider this remarkable statistic from historian Chris Miller: last year, in a single year, the semiconductor industry manufactured more chips than humanity had produced of all other manufactured products combined throughout human history. Artificial intelligence might appear digital, but it depends on something profoundly physical: chips, semiconductors and the infrastructure that powers them. We cannot afford to watch from the sidelines while the United States, Taiwan and others lead the field, and thanks to this Budget, Edinburgh will join them in the future.<span id="534" class="column-number" data-column-number="534"></span> I have argued for years that Edinburgh can be one of the great powerhouses of the British economy, provided we have a Government who are willing to back its potential. For too long, however, we have had an SNP Government letting us down at every turn. Edinburgh is the local authority with the lowest funding per head in Scotland, and there are more homeless children in Edinburgh than in the whole of Wales. The SNP Government hoard money in Holyrood and starve Scotland’s capital city. Yesterday, we heard a Labour Chancellor reject that, and make the decisions that will help Edinburgh to thrive. Support for entrepreneurs, start-ups, scale-ups and founders will mean that the innovation of Edinburgh researchers pushes us into the future. The SNP position on Labour’s investment in Scotland is absurd in the extreme. We heard the hon. Member for Angus and Perthshire Glens (Dave Doogan) attack the removal of standing charges from bills, despite having advocated for that policy in this Chamber only months earlier. The Scottish Government’s budget is 12.4% higher, even setting aside new responsibilities. Since Labour came to office, we have delivered £18 billion extra for Scotland’s budget. Where has that money gone? Why are my constituents still facing waiting lists, homelessness and potholes? It is because the SNP Government are so keen to look for grievance that they cannot even work out that they have been given more money. Labour is delivering for Edinburgh. What is holding us back are an SNP Government with no plans, no conception of what Scotland’s capital city can do, and no notion of how to use government to improve people’s lives.
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EU Pact on Migration and Asylum
Illegal immigration is by definition a cross-border phenomenon, which is why we are required to work with our friends and partners across borders. The Home Secretary has already talked about the 50,000-person reduction from France; we increasingly hear reports that for those in the camps in northern Calais, smugglers are hard to find. That is a far cry from the situation under the previous Government, who could not even decide if France was a friend or a foe. Does the Home Secretary agree that it is by working with our allies on international challenges that we can address the problems of illegal immigration, which is what the public are asking for?
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Work-based Immigration
As someone who served on the Home Affairs Committee for two years, I pay tribute to the Chair and the other members, who I can see around the Chamber. I am a partisan person, and I enjoy a partisan political fight, but in a Select Committee one works with people from other parties to get into the weeds of complex and difficult issues. I found that to be a rewarding experience that brings a lot to democracy, so I pay tribute to the members of the Committee. The statement and report are important, because although immigration is one of the most divisive political issues, the report shows us that the public are nothing like as polarised as we would think. I attended the deliberation in Renfrewshire with the Committee, and on immigration the public are willing to engage with the <span id="72" class="column-number" data-column-number="72"></span>trade-offs and find common ground between different positions. There is rarely someone who is 100% pro-migration or 100% anti-migration; they are much more open to persuasion. Does the Chair of the Committee agree that the report shows economic migration is a tool of economic policy, but that we struggle to talk about it because it is occluded by discussions on the small boats? Does she agree that the public are willing to engage with complexity and the trade-offs involved, and that they are far more thoughtful and engaged than social media and the press would have us think?
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Cadet Forces
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Cadet Forces
I thank the Minister for that answer. Musselburgh Sea Cadets and Royal Marines Cadets have been giving young people in Musselburgh a head start for more than 70 years, and celebrated the first ever National Cadets Week last month with an open day. I will be joining them on parade on Thursday to pay tribute to the huge contribution that they make to the honest toun. Will the Minister join me in thanking the cadets and volunteers in Musselburgh and across my constituency, and tell me what the UK Government are doing to support cadets?
2024 General Election: Edinburgh East and Musselburgh
Held . Recorded result: Lab Gain. Majority 3,715. 45,575 votes cast from an electorate of 76,188. Parties are as each candidate stood at the time.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Murray | Labour | 18,790 | 41.2% |
| Tommy Sheppard | Scottish National Party | 15,075 | 33.1% |
| Amanda Grimm | Scottish Green Party | 4,669 | 10.2% |
| Marie-Clair Munro | Conservative | 2,598 | 5.7% |
| Derek Winton | Reform UK | 2,129 | 4.7% |
| Charles Dundas | Liberal Democrat | 1,949 | 4.3% |
| Jane Gould | Independent | 365 | 0.8% |
Parliamentary career
Seats held
| Seat | Dates |
|---|---|
| Edinburgh East and MusselburghElected 1 time | – present |
Committee memberships 7
| Committee | Dates |
|---|---|
| Space Industry (Indemnities) Bill | – present |
| Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill | – |
| Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill | – |
| Employment Rights Bill | – |
| Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill | – |
| Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill: Programming sub committee | – |
| Home Affairs Committee | – |
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