Sandra White

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Sandra White is a Scottish politician. Born on August 17, 1951 in Glasgow she was elected to the Scottish Parliament as a Scottish National Party (SNP) candidate to represent Glasgow in 1999. She also contested Glasgow Kelvin where she came second to the Labour Party candidate by 4,408 votes. She was re-elected to sit in the parliament to represent Glasgow in 2003, topping the SNP's list of candidates for that region. Contesting Glasgow Kelvin that year she again came second to Labour, this time by the smaller margin of 3,289 votes. ^[1]

She served as a SNP Parliamentary group whip in the first parliamentary session and currently sits on the parliament's Public Petitions Committee and Equal Opportunities Committee. She has forged a role as a crusading campaigner and working MSP while also holding her party's Deputy Social Justice portfolio. Her campaigns include against closures and downgrading (including a 1,600 signature petition) at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill and the Queen Mother's Hospital^[2]^[3]^[4]. She has also campaigned extensively against racism^[5] and for better treatment of asylum seekers, including joining an occupation against so-called 'dawn raids'. ^[6]

Her other campaigns have included the successful attempts to save the 7:84 theatre group from threatened loss of funding by the Scottish Arts Council ^[7] and involvement in Stop the War Coalition events^[8], while high-profile constituency work has included the August 2006 case of an 86-year old widow who was threatened with court by Glasgow Housing Association. ^[9]

She previously served as a SNP councillor in Renfrewshire and currently lives in the Merchant City.