"The purpose of this site is to provide people living in the Central Scotland area with information about issues relating to their particular area"
Margaret MitchellWelcome to my website
Politics is all about people. As a Central Scotland MSP it is both a pleasure and a privilege to meet and become involved with a hugely diverse number of people and organisations. My work both within the Scottish Parliament and my Central Region Constituency is immensely varied, often challenging but never dull!
In the home page photo, for example, I met up with other U.K politicians to promote Macmillan Cancer Care during a Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference on the subject of "Delivering Democracy and Sustainable Development " held in New Delhi, India. Among the issues covered during the conference was the need for everyone within the commonwealth to work together to tackle global and increasingly vexing problem of human trafficking.
I hope that you find the site easy to navigate through. There will be recent updates in relation to each of the areas which make up the Central Region constituency and also a report about what I have been doing in the Scottish Parliament. The parliamentary section also includes links to information in respect of issues in which I am involved on behalf of the people living in Central Scotland.
Please feel free to contact me at anytime and I hope that you find this website useful.
Best wishes
Margaret Mitchell MSP
The costs of this website have been met out of parliamentary resources.
Bio
Born and raised in Coatbridge, Margaret has spent most of her life living and working in Central Scotland. She trained as a teacher and taught in primary and special education schools in Lanarkshire. However, Margaret left the profession in order to study law, and later graduated from Strathclyde University with an LLB and Diploma in Law and Legal Practice.
Margaret is a former Justice of the Peace and Non Executive Director of Hairmyres and Stonehouse NHS Trust.In 2003 she was elected as the Conservative list MSP for Central Scotland parliamentary region, and until 2007 was the Conservative Party’s Justice Spokesman. Currently Margaret is involved with many different parliamentary groups including the cross party groups on Taiwain;Tibet; The Economy and Recreational Boating and Marine Tourism . Since 2007 she has been the Convener of the Equal Opportunities Committee and is also presently Convener of the Cross Party Group on Dysleixa.
Margaret is married and lives with her husband, Henry, in Bothwell. When time allows, she enjoys photography, cycling, golf and sailing.