Bill Kidd

Bill Kidd MSP
Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Anniesland
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 May 2011
Preceded by	Bill Butler
Majority	6,588 (19.9%)
Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow
In office 3 May 2007 – 5 May 2011
Personal details
Born	(1956-07-24) 24 July 1956 (age 68)
Political party	Scottish National Party
Occupation	Member of the Scottish Parliament
Profession	Politician
Website	Bill Kidd MSP

William Kidd (born 24 July 1956) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Glasgow Anniesland constituency since 2011, having previously represented the Glasgow region from 2007 to 2011.

He is currently the convenor of the Cross Party Group on Nuclear Disarmament and deputy convenor of the Cross Party Group on Human Trafficking. He previously served as chief whip from 2012 to 2018 and as senior deputy whip from 2007 to 2012.

Outside of Holyrood, Kidd also serves as co-president of the international organisation Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non Proliferation and Disarmament (PNND). He has represented PNND at the United Nations, including delivering PNND's address to the 10th NPT Review Conference in August 2022. In 2016 Kidd was named, in his capacity as co-president, in a nomination of PNND for the Nobel Peace Prize. He was singled out for his dedicated work campaigning against nuclear weapons.^[1]