I was delighted to be at the Heads of Terms signing of this.

A quarter of a billion pound investment committed to Ayrshire. This will generate thousands of jobs over a 10-15 year period.

In East Ayrshire the focus is on manufacturing investment and an energy innovation centre so this could see many highly paid and skilled jobs coming to the area.

Digital connectivity will also play a part and there is a regional skills development programme.

It is important that the growth deal does create new jobs in the Cumnock and Doon Valley areas and I know myself and my colleague, Jeanne Freeman MSP will be fighting that corner. I am sure other elected representatives will be too.

Emergency Debate DUE to the lack of answers over firstly the Seaborne Freight contract – the one to a company with no ships and no money – and then the Eurotunnel £33m settlement I applied to have an emergency debate in the House of Commons.

The speaker decides whether I will be allowed to make an application, which takes the form of a three minute speech.

He then announces the decision as to whether to grant the debate and when. It is very rare to be granted an emergency debate, so I was glad firstly, to be granted my pitch.

I was then as much delighted and panicky that I was granted the debate as the first item of business. T

his meant I had minimal time to prepare a proper speech for the main debate, so I was nervous about remembering all I wanted to say! Fortunately (or unfortunately) there were so many bad decisions to talk about that turned out not to be an issue.

£2.7bn Man IT has now been calculated that the decisions and mistakes from Chris Grayling as firstly Justice Secretary, and now as Transport Secretary have cost us, the taxpayers £2.7bn.

How can he still be in a job? This Westminster Government is the most incompetent there has ever been and yet at a UK level, Labour are still trailing in the polls. Surely we have better options than this?