
With the New Year, many new issues were brought to my attention by constituents across Scotland.
Many people have written to me regarding proposed EU legislation requiring greater transparency by oil, gas and mineral companies across Member States. Similarly, a recurring theme in many of the letters I receive relates to the provision of information on cross-border healthcare in different EU Member States.

This month, the European Parliament has been busy protecting patients from so called 'dodgy doctors'.
I made a speech to MEPs to highlight a report that calls for steps to be taken to protect patients from doctors who have been struck off in EU Member States and for an EU wide alert system that will let health authorities know if a doctor has been convicted of malpractice.

Since the European Parliament resumed its work at the beginning of September, in my role as Coordinator of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, I have continued to pressure for a fairer, greener and more sustainable approach to the reform of the CAP.
I am very privileged to have been asked my political group to represent them in the crucial negotiations as one of the five MEPs who will sit round the negotiating table to hammer out the final details of the CAP reform.

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