Kenneth Macintosh

Kenneth Macintosh MSP
Member of the Scottish Parliament for Eastwood
Incumbent
Assumed office  6 May 1999
Preceded by	new constituency
Majority	891 (2.1%)
Born	15 January 1962 (1962-01-15) (age 47) Inverness,Scotland
Political party	Scottish Labour Party
Residence	Busby, Scotland
Alma mater	University of Edinburgh

Kenneth Macintosh (born 15 January 1962) is a politician in Scotland. He is a member of the Labour party, and is currently MSP for the Eastwood constituency. He was first elected in the 1999 Scottish Parliament election and retained his seat in the 2003 and the 2007 election.

Macintosh was born in Inverness and was educated at the Royal High School and the University of Edinburgh. Before entering the Scottish Parliament he was a television producer for BBC News. He and his wife Claire live in Busby, East Renfrewshire with their five children.

After his election, Macintosh was a ministerial aide until he voted against the Scottish Executive over the closure of the A&E Department at the Victoria Infirmary in Glasgow.^[1] In 2005 Macintosh had to resign from his position as Deputy Convenor on the Standards Committee after it was revealed he had failed to declare £330 of hospitality from McDonalds within the required time.^[2]

In 2006 and 2007 Macintosh has proposed a Member's Bill to the Scottish Parliament providing for the tougher regulation of sunbed parlours, which passed successfully.^[3] Since his election in 1999 has been a member of the cross-party group on cancer and has campaigned vigorously on behalf of various cancer charities.^{[citation needed]}

Following his re-election as MSP for Eastwood at the 2007 election, where he was elected with the second-highest vote in Scotland, Macintosh was appointed Shadow Minister for Schools and Skills.

References

External links

• Ken Macintosh MSP Scottish parliament webpage
• kenmacintoshmsp.co.uk

v • d • e Members of the Scottish Parliament in the West of Scotland region Elected in the 2007 election Constituency MSPs Des McNulty (Lab, Clydebank and Milngavie) · Kenny Gibson (SNP, Cunninghame North) · Jackie Baillie (Lab, Dumbarton) · Kenneth Macintosh (Lab, Eastwood) · Duncan McNeil (Lab, Greenock and Inverclyde) · Wendy Alexander (Lab, Paisley North) · Hugh Henry (Lab, Paisley South) · David Whitton (Lab, Strathkelvin and Bearsden) · Trish Godman (Lab, West Renfrewshire) Additional Members Jackson Carlaw (Con) · Ross Finnie (Lib Dem) · Annabel Goldie (Con) · Stuart McMillan (SNP) · Stewart Maxwell (SNP) · Gil Paterson (SNP) · Bill Wilson (SNP) Labour (8 seats), SNP (5 seats), Conservative (2 seats), Lib Dems (1 seats)

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