Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland
United Kingdom Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland | |
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![]() Incumbent since 9 July 2024Kirsty McNeill | |
Scotland Office | |
Appointer | The Monarch (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 junior ministerial post (of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State rank) in the Government of the United Kingdom, supporting the Secretary of State for Scotland. The post is also known as Deputy Secretary of State for Scotland.
History
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.
List of office holders
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 MP for Lanark | ![]() | Unionist Party | 15 January 1923 | Stanley Baldwin |
James Stewart MP for Glasgow St Rollox | Labour Party | 23 January 1924 | Ramsay MacDonald | |
Walter Elliot MP for Glasgow Kelvingrove | ![]() | Unionist Party | 11 November 1924 | Stanley Baldwin |
Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (1926–)
Name | Portrait | Party | Term start | Term end | Prime Minister |
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Walter Elliott MP for Glasgow Kelvingrove | ![]() | Unionist Party | 26 July 1926 | 7 June 1929 | |
Thomas Johnston MP for Dundee | ![]() | Labour Party | 7 June 1929 | 25 March 1931 | |
Joseph Westwood MP for Stirling and Falkirk | 25 March 1931 | August 1931 | |||
Noel Skelton MP for Combined Scottish Universities | Unionist Party | 3 September 1931 | 22 November 1935 (Died in office) | ||
John Colville MP for Midlothian and Peebles Northern | ![]() | 28 November 1935 | 29 October 1936 | ||
Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn MP for West Renfrewshire | ![]() | 29 October 1936 | 6 September 1939 | ||
Captain Sir John McEwen MP for Berwick and Haddington | 6 September 1939 | 17 May 1940 | |||
Joseph Westwood MP for Stirling and Falkirk | 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 MP for Hamilton | 26 October 1951 | ||||
John Robertson MP for Berwick | 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 MP for Kinross and Western Perthshire | 3 June 1955 | ||||
Sir James Henderson Stewart MP for East Fife | ![]() | 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 MP for Edinburgh Pentlands | Unionist Party | ||||
Niall Macpherson MP for Dumfriesshire | Liberal National | 19 January 1957 | 28 October 1960 | ||
Thomas Galbraith 1st Baron Strathclyde | | Unionist Party | 22 October 1959 | 8 November 1962 | |
Gilmour Leburn MP for Kinross and West Perthshire | 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 MP for Greenock | Labour and Co-operative Party | 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 MP for North Angus and Mearns | Conservative Party | 24 June 1970 | 4 March 1974 | Edward Heath | |
George Younger MP for Ayr | 8 January 1974 | ||||
Sir Teddy Taylor MP for Glasgow Cathcart | ![]() | 28 July 1971 | |||
Hector Monro MP for Dumfries | 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 MP for Stirling, Falkirk and Grangemouth | 18 October 1974 | ||||
Frank McElhone MP for Glasgow Queen's Park | 12 September 1975 | ||||
James Callaghan | |||||
Alex Fletcher MP for Edinburgh North | Conservative Party | 7 May 1979 | 14 June 1983 | Margaret Thatcher | |
Russell Fairgrieve MP for Aberdeenshire West | 15 September 1981 | ||||
Sir Malcolm Rifkind MP for Edinburgh Pentlands | ![]() | 6 April 1982 | |||
Allan Stewart MP for East Renfrewshire (until 1983) | 15 September 1981 | 10 September 1986 | |||
John MacKay MP for Argyll (until 1983) | 6 April 1982 | 14 June 1987 | |||
Michael Ancram MP for Edinburgh South | ![]() | 13 June 1983 | 14 June 1987 | ||
Ian Lang MP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale | ![]() | 10 September 1986 | 13 June 1987 | ||
James Douglas-Hamilton MP for Edinburgh West | ![]() | 13 June 1987 | 6 July 1995 | ||
Michael Forsyth MP for Stirling | ![]() | 7 September 1990 | |||
Thomas Galbraith 2nd Baron Strathclyde | ![]() | 7 September 1990 | 14 April 1992 | ||
Allan Stewart MP for Eastwood | 28 November 1990 | 8 February 1995 | John Major | ||
Hector Monro MP for Dumfries | 14 April 1992 | 6 July 1995 | |||
George Kynoch MP for Kincardine and Deeside | 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 | |||||
Sam Galbraith MP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden | Labour Party | 6 May 1997 | 29 July 1999 | Tony Blair | |
John Sewel Baron Sewel | |||||
Malcolm Chisholm MP for Edinburgh North and Leith | 10 December 1997 | ||||
Calum MacDonald MP for Western Isles | 11 December 1997 | 29 July 1999 | |||
Gus Macdonald Baron Macdonald of Tradeston | ![]() | 3 August 1998 | |||
Vacant | 29 July 1999 | 29 May 2002 | |||
Anne McGuire MP for Stirling | ![]() | 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 MP for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale | ![]() | 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 MP for Worcester | ![]() | 27 July 2019 | 16 December 2019 | Boris Johnson | |
Colin Clark MP for Gordon | ![]() | ||||
Douglas Ross MP for Moray | ![]() | 16 December 2019 | 26 May 2020 | ||
David Duguid MP for Banff and Buchan | ![]() | 2 June 2020 | 16 September 2021 | ||
Iain Stewart MP for Milton Keynes South | ![]() | 8 September 2022 | |||
David Duguid MP for Banff and Buchan | ![]() | 20 September 2022 | 27 October 2022 | Liz Truss | |
Malcolm Offord Baron Offord of Garvel[1][2][3] | ![]() | 4 October 2021 | 9 February 2024 | Liz Truss | |
Rishi Sunak | |||||
John Lamont MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | ![]() | 27 October 2022 | 5 July 2024 | ||
Donald Cameron Baron Cameron of Lochiel | ![]() | 9 February 2024 | 5 July 2024 | ||
Kirsty McNeill MP for Midlothian | ![]() | Labour Party | 9 July 2024 | Incumbent | Sir Keir Starmer |
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 April 2023.
- ^ "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.
External links
- Scotland Office