Karen Whitefield

Karen Whitefield (born 8 January 1970, Bellshill) is a Scottish Labour politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Airdrie and Shotts constituency since 1999. Prior to her election as MSP she worked as a personal assistant to Rachel Squire, Member of Parliament. She currently presides over the Parliament's Education Committee where she used her veto to reject the student graduate endowment bill to the annoyance of the Liberal Democrats, Scottish National Party (SNP) and Scottish students.^[1]

External links

• Karen Whitefield MSP personal site
• Karen Whitefield MSP official biography at the Scottish Parliament website
• Karen Whitefield MSP profile at the site of Scottish Labour

•  • e Members of the Scottish Parliament in the Central Scotland region

Elected in the 2007 election Labour (8 seats), SNP (7 seats), Conservative (1 seat), Lib Dems (1 seat) Constituency MSPs Karen Whitefield (Lab, Airdrie and Shotts) • Elaine Smith (Lab, Coatbridge and Chryston) • Cathie Craigie (Lab, Cumbernauld and Kilsyth) • Andy Kerr (Lab, East Kilbride) • Cathy Peattie (Lab, Falkirk East) • Michael Matheson (SNP, Falkirk West) • Michael McMahon (Lab, Hamilton North and Bellshill) • Tom McCabe (Lab, Hamilton South) • Willie Coffey (SNP, Kilmarnock and Loudoun) •Jack McConnell (Lab, Motherwell and Wishaw) Additional Members Linda Fabiani (SNP) • Jamie Hepburn (SNP) • Christina McKelvie (SNP) • Margaret Mitchell (Con) • Alex Neil (SNP) • Hugh O'Donnell (Lib Dem) • John Wilson (SNP)