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This is a list of all Scottish Parliaments and Governments (called the Scottish Executive from 1999 until 2008) from the time of the introduction of devolved government for Scotland in 1999.
Executive agencies are established by ministers as part of Scottish Government to carry out a discrete area of work. They form an integral part of the Scottish Government, but have a specific, well-defined remit.
The Scottish Government (Scottish Gaelic: Riaghaltas na h-Alba, pronounced [ˈrˠiə.əl̪ˠt̪əs nə ˈhal̪ˠapə]) is the executive arm of the devolved government of Scotland. [2] It was formed in 1999 as the Scottish Executive following the 1997 referendum on Scottish devolution . [ 3 ]
Marian Spencer, the first Black president of the Woman’s City Club of Cincinnati and the first Black woman elected to Cincinnati City Council, was a civil rights activist with a "spine of steel ...
The Strategy and External Affairs Directorates are a group of directorates of the Scottish Government, responsible for co-ordinating policy in Scotland relating to constitutional matters, elections and freedom of information, as well as managing Scottish Cabinet businesses and the legislative programme for Government.
Executive agencies form part of the Scottish Government, but have a specific, well-defined remit. They are staffed by civil servants and headed by a Chief Executive, who is a civil servant, and are directly accountable to the government. [2] [8] Accountant in Bankruptcy; Disclosure Scotland; Education Scotland; Forestry and Land Scotland ...
The role of permanent secretary originally headed the Office of the Permanent Secretary, which was a civil service department of the Scottish Government (at the time styled as the Scottish Executive). The departments that made up the Scottish Executive were abolished in May 2007. Functions are now delivered by over 30 separate directorates. [3]
The politics of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Poilitigs na h-Alba) operate within the constitution of the United Kingdom, of which Scotland is a country.Scotland is a democracy, being represented in both the Scottish Parliament and the Parliament of the United Kingdom since the Scotland Act 1998.