{"id":1391,"date":"2015-09-20T15:25:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T15:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/?p=1391"},"modified":"2015-09-20T16:00:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T16:00:33","slug":"blude-badge-debate-secured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/?p=1391","title":{"rendered":"Blude Badge Debate Secured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>10th September, 2015<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blue Badge Debate Secured<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Greenock and Inverclyde MSP Duncan McNeil has secured a debate in Parliament next Wednesday on the extension of the Blue Badge criteria.<\/p>\n<p>Duncan McNeil MSP pushed for a debate after being contacted by a worried parent whose son Aiden lost his badge due to changes in the guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>Duncan McNeil said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The Scottish Government consulted last year on changing the law to extend the criteria. There was overwhelming support for doing so but nothing has happened yet. This is why I have secured a debate in Parliament taking place this Wednesday on the matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I hope that it will act as a catalyst to move us towards a change in legislation so that young people like Aiden and his parents get the improved support they need to go about their daily lives safely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10th September, 2015 Blue Badge Debate Secured Greenock and Inverclyde MSP Duncan McNeil has secured a debate in Parliament next Wednesday on the extension of the Blue Badge criteria. Duncan McNeil MSP pushed for a debate after being contacted by a worried parent whose son Aiden lost his badge due to changes in the guidelines. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1392,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions\/1392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}