- Cathie Craigie
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constituency_MP = Cumbernauld and Kilsyth
parliament = Scottish
majority = 2,079 (7.9%)
term_start =6 May 1999
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birth_place = Stirling,Scotland
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footnotes =Cathie Craigie (born
April 14 1954 , Stirling) is a Scottish Labour politician, andMember of the Scottish Parliament for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth constituency since 1999. She was re-elected in 2003 with a majority of 520 votes, and increased this to 2,079 in 2007, partly thanks to the fact that theScottish Socialist Party either chose not to field a candidate as they had in 2003, or were in too weak a position to do so following the division of the left over theTommy Sheridan faction split and the establishment ofSolidarity (Scotland) . . [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbernauld_and_Kilsyth_%28Scottish_Parliament_constituency%29]Educated at Kilysth Academy, she was council leader of
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth from 1994 to 1996. She is a member of the Justice committee and Vice-Convenor of the Standards and Procedures Committee at theScottish Parliament . She was the first woman to successfully steer a Member's Bill, The Mortgage Rights (Scotland) Act, which provides greater protection for those facing repossession, through the parliament. Craigie is also the convenor of the Cross-Party group on Deafness, and is particularly interested in issues about health, housing and social justice.Craigie was re-elected to represent the Cumbernauld and Kilsyth constituency at the
2007 Scottish Parliament election with an increased majority of 2,079.External links
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* [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/msp/membersPages/cathie_craigie/ Cathie Craigie MSP] Official Scottish parliament page
* [http://www.scottishlabour.org.uk/cumbernauldandkilsyth1/ Cathie Cragie MSP] Biography at Labour party website.CentralScotland MSPs
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