John Thurso MP

Welcome to my website

Thank you for visiting my website. The main purpose of this site is to keep the people of Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross up to date with what I am doing as their MP and to give them the opportunity to get in touch and let me know their views.

Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross has fantastic coast lines and beautiful scenery but being one of the largest and most remote constituencies in the UK is not without its challenges! I work closely with my colleagues to make sure the Far North has a strong voice at every level of Government and to make sure our area's particular needs are heard.

On my website you can read the latest news about my work at Westminster, on the Treasury Select Committee and in the constituency, you can also find details of my latest advice surgeries.

If you are not a constituent, please feel free to take a look around and learn more about some of the issues that matter most to people in the Far North. If you like what you see, why not come and pay us a visit?

If you cannot find the information you require, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

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Latest News

Article in the Ross-shire Journal: Helping people into work

Article: Feb 7, 2012

It is a fundamental measure of a just society that it makes provision for those who cannot cope for themselves. The UK's welfare system, conceived by that great Liberal, Beveridge, and enacted by the reforming 1945 Labour government, was not only the first comprehensive state welfare system in the world but remains today, after many changes and improvements, one of the best. As an hotelier I lived and worked overseas in Europe and the US as well as in the UK and I saw for myself just how good our system is. That does not mean that it cannot be changed or improved: quite the reverse. We owe it to that legacy to seek constant improvement, and there is one core principle that has been missing.
Advice Clinic: Tain

Event: February 13, 2012 5:30 PM

Duthac Centre, Tain

All welcome, no appointments necessary.
Advice Clinic: Lochinver

Event: February 16, 2012 6:00 PM

Assynt Centre, Lochinver

All welcome, no appointments necessary.
Advice Clinic: Kinlochbervie

Event: February 17, 2012 11:00 AM

Community Room, Kinlochbervie High School

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Advice Clinic: Durness

Event: February 17, 2012 1:30 PM

Village Hall, Durness

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Advice Clinic: Tongue

Event: February 17, 2012 3:30 PM

Village Hall, Tongue

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Advice Clinic: Bettyhill

Event: February 17, 2012 5:30 PM

Village Hall, Bettyhill

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Advice Clinic: Thurso

Event: February 18, 2012 10:00 AM

Boys' Brigade Hall, Thurso

All welcome, no appointments necessary.
Energy Minister Greg Barker has confirmed that the Far North is well on the way to hosting Scotland's first marine energy park

Article: Jan 26, 2012

Responding to a question from Far North MP John Thurso today, Energy Minister Greg Barker confirmed that the Pentland Firth was well on its way to becoming Scotland's first marine energy park.

He went on to ask John Thurso to host a meeting of the Marine Energy Programme Board in Caithness in the summer with a view to making the park a reality and only the second in the UK.
Thurso grills Governor of Bank of England over proposed checks of Banks sweeping new powers

Article: Jan 19, 2012

Local MP John Thurso took the opportunity of a meeting of the Treasury Select Committee this week to grill the Governor of the Bank of England over his proposals to introduce checks on the sweeping new powers to be granted the Bank.

The Governor, Mervyn King, was appearing before a meeting of the influential Treasury Select Committee which is investigating proposals to make the UK Financial system more stable.