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MSPs responsibilities

Your MSPs might: 

  • ask questions and look at the work and policies of the Scottish Government to check that they are serving the people of Scotland
  • take issues forward on behalf of the people they represent
  • respond to letters and emails from local people
  • respond to an issue in their area by asking an official question in the Scottish Parliament 
  • hold regular open meetings with constituents to discuss the problems in their area, known as a surgery
  • debate issues
  • vote on changes in the law
  • sit on committees to look at issues in more detail

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