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The post remained a junior one until the May 2011 Scottish Parliament election after which a new cabinet post of Cabinet Secretary for Parliamentary Business and Government Strategy was established with the Minister for Parliamentary Business and Chief Whip reporting to it, [4] this set up remained in place until a government reshuffle in ...
The Scottish Parliament ... The business secretary tacitly acknowledged this fact in the impact assessment that the BEIS department was obliged to publish alongside ...
The Minister for Business is a Junior ministerial post in the Scottish Government. As a result, the Minister does not attend [ 2 ] the Scottish Cabinet . The post was retitled in May 2024, with the Minister supporting the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Gaelic , Kate Forbes .
James Douglas Hepburn (born 21 May 1979) is a Scottish politician who has served as the Minister for Parliamentary Business since May 2024. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), he has been Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth since 2011, having previously represented the Central Scotland region from 2007 to 2011.
In January 2014, Johnson was selected by party members as a candidate for Edinburgh Southern prior to the 2016 Scottish Parliament election. [3] He was elected to the Scottish Parliament in May 2016, gaining the seat from the Scottish National Party. [7] He became shadow education minister for Scottish Labour in May 2016. [8]
Richard Neilson Lochhead (born 24 May 1969) is a Scottish politician serving as the Minister for Business since 2023. [a] [1] A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), he served as the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Food and Environment from 2007 to 2016.
The SPCB is established by section 21 of, and schedule 2 to, the Scotland Act 1998, but it was left to the Scottish Parliament to decide how the SPCB operates. [4] The SPCB considers and makes decisions on a wide range of issues to do with the running of the parliament including the property, staff and resources that the parliament requires in order to operate. [5]
According to the Parliament: 'Scotland's Futures Forum, the Scottish Parliament's initiative to develop strategic thinking on the issues which will shape Scotland's future, moves forward today with the announcement of the eight individuals who will make up the Forum's board of directors.