Minister for Community Safety

The Minister for Community Safety is a Junior ministerial post in the Scottish Government. As a result, the minister does not attend the Scottish Cabinet. The post was created in May 2007 after the appointment of the Scottish National Party

Scottish National Party

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minority administration and the minister reports to the Cabinet Secretary for Justice, who has overall responsibility for the portfolio, and is a member of cabinet. The Minister for Community Safety has specific responsibility for anti-social behaviour, sectarianism, human rights and fire and rescue services. Community safety, civil contingencies, drugs policy and related matters, liquor licensing, vulnerable witnesses, victim support and civil law, charity law, religious and faith organisations are other matters for which the minister has responsibility.

List of office holders

The current Minister for Community Safety and Legal Affairs is Roseanna Cunningham

Roseanna Cunningham

Roseanna Cunningham is the Scottish Government's Minister for Community Safety and Legal Affairs and Scottish National Party Member of the Scottish Parliament for Perthshire South and Kinross-shire, having previously represented Perth.-Early life:Raised in Australia, she returned to Scotland and...

MSP.

Deputy Minister for Justice

Entered Office	Left Office	Party
1.	Angus MacKay Angus MacKay (politician) Angus MacKay is a Scottish Labour politician, and was Member of the Scottish Parliament for Edinburgh South constituency from 1999 to 2003....	19 May 1999	2 November 2000	Labour Scottish Labour Party The Scottish Labour Party is the section of the British Labour Party which operates in Scotland....
2.	Iain Gray Iain Gray Iain Gray is a Scottish politician and the Leader of Scottish Labour Party Opposition in the Scottish Parliament. Gray was elected as the Member of the Scottish Parliament for the East Lothian constituency in 2007 having previously represented Edinburgh Pentlands from 1999 to 2003.-Background and...	2 November 2000	28 November 2001	Labour Scottish Labour Party The Scottish Labour Party is the section of the British Labour Party which operates in Scotland....
3.	Richard Simpson Richard Simpson (politician) Richard Simpson is a Scottish Labour politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Ochil constituency from 1999 to 2003 and a Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Mid-Scotland and Fife region as of the 2007 election...	28 November 2001	26 November 2002	Labour Scottish Labour Party The Scottish Labour Party is the section of the British Labour Party which operates in Scotland....
4.	Hugh Henry Hugh Henry Hugh Henry is a Scottish Labour politician and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Paisley South since 1999.-Background:...	28 November 2002	14 November 2006	Labour Scottish Labour Party The Scottish Labour Party is the section of the British Labour Party which operates in Scotland....
5.	Johann Lamont	16 November 2006	17 May 2007	Labour Scottish Labour Party The Scottish Labour Party is the section of the British Labour Party which operates in Scotland....

Name	Entered Office	Left Office	Party
	6.	Fergus Ewing Fergus Ewing Fergus Ewing is the Scottish Government's Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Tourism and the Scottish National Party Member of the Scottish Parliament for Inverness and Nairn.- Background :...	17 May 2007	20 May 2011	Scottish National Party Scottish National Party The Scottish National Party is a social-democratic political party in Scotland which campaigns for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom....

Minister for Community Safety and Legal Affairs

Name	Entered Office	Left Office	Party
	7.	Roseanna Cunningham Roseanna Cunningham Roseanna Cunningham is the Scottish Government's Minister for Community Safety and Legal Affairs and Scottish National Party Member of the Scottish Parliament for Perthshire South and Kinross-shire, having previously represented Perth.-Early life:Raised in Australia, she returned to Scotland and...	20 May 2011	Incumbent	Scottish National Party Scottish National Party The Scottish National Party is a social-democratic political party in Scotland which campaigns for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom....

History

From 1999 to 2007 responsibility for Community Safety rested with the Minister for Justice and the Deputy Minister for Justice. The Salmond government, elected following the 2007 Scottish Parliament election created the junior post of the Minister for Community Safety who assists the Cabinet Secretary for Justice, in the Scottish Executive Justice Department. After the 2011 Scottish Parliament election the post was renamed Minister for Community Safety and Legal Affairs and was given additional responsibilities for tackling sectarianism.

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