Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland
Scotland Office | |
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Appointer | The King (on the advice of the Prime Minister) |
Inaugural holder | John Pratt |
Formation | 8 August 1919 |
Website | Scotland Office |
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The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland is a
The post was first established as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health for Scotland in 1919, before becoming the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland in 1926. Additional Parliamentary Under-Secretary posts were added in 1940 and 1951, and a Minister of State post was established in 1951. In 1969–70, one of the Under-Secretary posts was replaced by an additional Minister of State. From 1974 to 1979, there were two Ministers of State and three Under-Secretaries, reverting to one Minister of State in 1979. In 1997, the second Minister of State post was reinstated, and a fourth Under-Secretary post was briefly added from August 1998.
Following devolution in 1999, the number of ministers was reduced. There are currently two Under-Secretaries to support the Secretary of State, and there is no Minister of State.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health for Scotland (1919–1926)
Name | Portrait | Party | Term start | Prime Minister |
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John Pratt
MP for Glasgow Cathcart |
Liberal Party | 8 August 1919 | David Lloyd George | |
James Kidd
MP for Linlithgowshire |
Unionist Party | 31 October 1922 | Bonar Law | |
Walter Elliot | Unionist Party | 15 January 1923 | Stanley Baldwin | |
James Stewart
MP for Glasgow St Rollox |
Labour Party | 23 January 1924 | Ramsay MacDonald | |
Walter Elliot | Unionist Party | 11 November 1924 | Stanley Baldwin |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (1926–present)
Name | Portrait | Party | Term start | Term end | Prime Minister |
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Walter Elliott | Unionist Party | 26 July 1926 | 7 June 1929 | ||
Thomas Johnston
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Labour Party | 7 June 1929 | 25 March 1931 | ||
Joseph Westwood | 25 March 1931 | August 1931 | |||
Noel Skelton | Unionist Party | 3 September 1931 | 22 November 1935
(Died in office) |
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John Colville | 28 November 1935 | 29 October 1936 | |||
Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn
MP for West Renfrewshire |
29 October 1936 | 6 September 1939 | |||
Captain Sir John McEwen
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6 September 1939 | 17 May 1940 | |||
Joseph Westwood | Labour Party | 17 May 1940 | 23 May 1945 | ||
Captain Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn
MP for West Renfrewshire |
Unionist Party | 8 February 1941 | 4 March 1942 | ||
Allan Chapman
MP for Rutherglen |
4 March 1942 | 26 July 1945 | |||
Thomas Galbraith
MP for Glasgow Pollok |
26 May 1945 | ||||
George Buchanan
MP for Glasgow Gorbals |
Labour Party | 4 August 1945 | 7 October 1947 | ||
Tom Fraser | 26 October 1951 | ||||
John Robertson
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7 October 1947 | ||||
Margaret Herbison
MP for North Lanarkshire |
2 March 1950 | ||||
Thomas Galbraith
MP for Glasgow Pollok |
Unionist Party | 2 November 1951 | 5 April 1955 | ||
Sir William McNair Snadden | 3 June 1955 | ||||
Sir James Henderson Stewart
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Liberal National | 4 February 1952 | 9 January 1957 | Harold Macmillan | |
Jack Nixon Browne
MP for Glasgow Craigton |
Scottish Conservative Party | 7 April 1955 | 9 January 1957 | ||
Niall Macpherson
MP for Dumfriesshire |
Liberal National | 13 June 1955 | 9 January 1957 | ||
Jack Nixon Browne
MP for Glasgow Craigton |
Conservative Party | 18 January 1957 | 22 October 1959 | ||
Major Lord John Hope | Unionist Party | ||||
Niall Macpherson
MP for Dumfriesshire |
Liberal National | 19 January 1957 | 28 October 1960 | ||
Thomas Galbraith 1st Baron Strathclyde |
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Unionist Party | 22 October 1959 | 8 November 1962 | |
Gilmour Leburn
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Conservative Party | 15 August 1963 | |||
Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Brooman-White
MP for Rutherglen |
28 October 1960 | 12 December 1963 | |||
The Lady Tweedsmuir
MP for Aberdeen South |
Unionist Party | 3 December 1962 | 16 October 1964 | ||
Anthony Stodart
MP for Edinburgh West |
Conservative Party | 19 August 1963 | Sir Alec Douglas-Home | ||
Gordon Campbell
MP for Moray and Nairn |
12 December 1963 | ||||
Dickson Mabon | Labour and Co-operative Party
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20 October 1964 | 7 January 1967 | Harold Wilson | |
William Hughes Baron Hughes |
Labour Party | 21 October 1964 | 13 October 1969 | ||
Bruce Millan
MP for Glasgow Craigton |
6 April 1966 | 19 June 1970 | |||
Norman Buchan
MP for West Renfrewshire |
7 January 1967 | ||||
Alick Buchanan-Smith | Conservative Party | 24 June 1970 | 4 March 1974 | Edward Heath | |
George Younger | 8 January 1974 | ||||
Sir Teddy Taylor
MP for Glasgow Cathcart |
28 July 1971 | ||||
Hector Monro
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28 July 1971 | 4 March 1974 | |||
Sir Teddy Taylor
MP for Glasgow Cathcart |
8 January 1974 | ||||
Robert Hughes
MP for Aberdeen North |
Labour Party | 11 March 1974 | 22 July 1975 | Harold Wilson | |
Hugh Brown
MP for Glasgow Provan |
28 June 1974 | 4 May 1979 | |||
Harry Ewing
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18 October 1974 | ||||
Frank McElhone | 12 September 1975 | ||||
James Callaghan | |||||
Alex Fletcher
MP for Edinburgh North |
Conservative Party | 7 May 1979 | 14 June 1983 | Margaret Thatcher | |
Russell Fairgrieve
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15 September 1981 | ||||
Sir Malcolm Rifkind | 6 April 1982 | ||||
Allan Stewart
MP for East Renfrewshire (until 1983) |
15 September 1981 | 10 September 1986 | |||
John MacKay
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6 April 1982 | 14 June 1987 | |||
Michael Ancram
MP for Edinburgh South |
13 June 1983 | 14 June 1987 | |||
Ian Lang
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10 September 1986 | 13 June 1987 | |||
James Douglas-Hamilton
MP for Edinburgh West |
13 June 1987 | 6 July 1995 | |||
Michael Forsyth | 7 September 1990 | ||||
Thomas Galbraith 2nd Baron Strathclyde |
7 September 1990 | 14 April 1992 | |||
Allan Stewart | 28 November 1990 | 8 February 1995 | John Major | ||
Hector Monro
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14 April 1992 | 6 July 1995 | |||
George Kynoch
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8 February 1995 | 2 May 1997 | |||
James Lindsay-Bethune 16th Earl of Lindsay |
6 July 1995 | 2 May 1997 | |||
Raymond Robertson
MP for Aberdeen South |
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Sam Galbraith | Labour Party | 6 May 1997 | 29 July 1999 | Tony Blair | |
John Sewel Baron Sewel |
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Malcolm Chisholm | 10 December 1997 | ||||
Calum MacDonald
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11 December 1997 | 29 July 1999 | |||
Gus Macdonald
Baron Macdonald of Tradeston |
3 August 1998 | ||||
Vacant | 29 July 1999 | 29 May 2002 | |||
Anne McGuire | Labour Party | 29 May 2002 | 11 May 2005 | ||
David Cairns
MP for Inverclyde |
11 May 2005 | 28 June 2007 | |||
Ann McKechin
MP for Inverclyde |
16 September 2008 | 11 May 2010 | Gordon Brown | ||
David Mundell | Conservative Party | 14 May 2010 | 11 May 2015 | David Cameron | |
Andrew Dunlop Baron Dunlop |
14 May 2015 | 10 June 2017 | |||
Ian Duncan Baron Duncan of Springbank |
15 June 2017 | 27 July 2019 | Theresa May | ||
Robin Walker | 27 July 2019 | 16 December 2019 | Boris Johnson | ||
Colin Clark | |||||
Douglas Ross | 16 December 2019 | 26 May 2020 | |||
David Duguid
MP for Banff and Buchan |
2 June 2020 | 16 September 2021 | |||
Iain Stewart | 8 September 2022 | ||||
David Duguid
MP for Banff and Buchan |
20 September 2022 | 27 October 2022 | Liz Truss | ||
4 October 2021 | 9 February 2024 | Liz Truss | |||
Rishi Sunak | |||||
John Lamont | 27 October 2022 | Incumbent | |||
Donald Cameron
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9 February 2024 | Incumbent |
Minister of State for Scotland (1951–2008)
- 2 November 1951: The Earl of Home
- 7 April 1955: Thomas Galbraith
- 23 October 1958: The Lord Forbes
- 22 October 1959: Jack Nixon Browne
- 20 October 1964: George Willis
- 7 January 1967: Dickson Mabon (to 19 June 1970)
- 13 October 1969: The Lord Hughes (to 19 June 1970)
- 23 June 1970: The Lady Tweedsmuir
- 7 April 1972: The Lord Polwarth
- 8 March 1974: Bruce Millan (to 8 April 1976)
- 8 March 1974: The Lord Hughes (to 8 August 1975)
- 8 August 1975: The Lord Kirkhill (to 15 December 1978)
- 14 April 1976: Gregor Mackenzie (to 4 May 1979)
- 7 May 1979: The Earl of Mansfield
- 13 June 1983: The Lord Gray of Contin
- 10 September 1986: The Lord Glenarthur
- 13 June 1987: Ian Lang(to 28 November 1990)
- 13 June 1987: The Lord Sanderson of Bowden (to 7 September 1990)
- 7 September 1990: Michael Forsyth
- 14 April 1992: The Lord Fraser of Carmyllie
- 6 July 1995: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton
- 6 May 1997: Henry McLeish (to 29 June 1999)
- 6 May 1997: Brian Wilson (to 28 July 1998)
- 28 July 1998: Helen Liddell (to 17 May 1999)
- 29 July 1999: Brian Wilson
- 26 January 2001: George Foulkes (to 29 May 2002)
- July 2007: David Cairns (16 September 2008)
See also
References
- ^ Matchett, Conor (30 September 2021). "Unelected millionaire dogged by 'cronyism' accusations given peerage and Scottish ministerial role by UK Government". The Scotsman. Edinburgh. Archived from the original on 3 October 2021.
- ^ "Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Malcolm Offord". gov.uk. Archived from the original on 30 September 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ^ Webster, Laura (13 October 2021). "Tory donor Scotland Office minister given official Lords title". The National. Retrieved 10 September 2022.