Under-Secretary of State for Scotland

The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland is a junior ministerial post (of Parliamentary Under Secretary of State rank) in the United Kingdom government, supporting the Secretary of State for Scotland

Secretary of State for Scotland

The Secretary of State for Scotland is the principal minister of Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom with responsibilities for Scotland. He heads the Scotland Office , a government department based in London and Edinburgh. The post was created soon after the Union of the Crowns, but was...

. 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

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

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

Devolution

Devolution is the statutory granting of powers from the central government of a sovereign state to government at a subnational level, such as a regional, local, or state level. Devolution can be mainly financial, e.g. giving areas a budget which was formerly administered by central government...

in 1999, the number of ministers was reduced. There is now only one Under-Secretary to support the Secretary of State, and no Minister of State

Minister of State

Minister of State is a title borne by politicians or officials in certain countries governed under a parliamentary system. In some countries a "minister of state" is a junior minister, who is assigned to assist a specific cabinet minister...

Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health for Scotland (1919-1926)

8 August 1919: John Pratt
John Pratt (Liberal politician)
Sir John William Pratt , was a Scottish Liberal politician.Pratt entered Parliament for Linlithgowshire in 1913 by-election, a seat he held until 1918, and then represented Glasgow Cathcart until 1922...
31 October 1922: James Kidd
James Kidd
James Kidd was Unionist Party politician in Scotland. He sat in the House of Commons from 1918 to 1922, and from 1924 until his death....
15 January 1923: Walter Elliott
23 January 1924: James Stewart
James Stewart (Glasgow MP)
James Stewart was a Scottish Labour Party politician.He was elected at the 1922 general election as Member of Parliament for Glasgow St. Rollox constituency, having contested the seat unsuccessfully at the 1918 general election...
11 November 1924: Walter Elliot

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (1926-)

26 July 1926: Walter Elliott
7 June 1929: Thomas Johnston
Thomas Johnston
Thomas "Tom" Johnston CH was a prominent Scottish socialist and politician of the early 20th century, a member of the Labour Party, a Member of Parliament and government minister – usually with Cabinet responsibility for Scottish affairs.-Red Clydesider:Johnston, the son of a middle-class...
25 March 1931: Joseph Westwood
Joseph Westwood
Joseph Westwood was a Scottish Labour politician.Educated at Buckhaven Higher Grade School, he worked as a draper's apprentice, messenger boy and miner...
3 September 1931: Noel Skelton
28 November 1935: John Colville
John Colville, 1st Baron Clydesmuir
David John Colville, 1st Baron Clydesmuir PC GCIE was a Scottish Unionist politician, and industrialist...
29 October 1936: Henry Wedderburn
6 September 1939: John McEwen
Sir John McEwen, 1st Baronet
Sir John Helias Finnie McEwen, 1st Baronet , was a Scottish Unionist politician.McEwen was the son of Robert Finnie McEwen. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He served in the Cameron Highlanders in the First World War. After the war he joined the Diplomatic Service...
17 May 1940: Joseph Westwood
Joseph Westwood
Joseph Westwood was a Scottish Labour politician.Educated at Buckhaven Higher Grade School, he worked as a draper's apprentice, messenger boy and miner...

(to 23 May 1945)
8 February 1941: Henry Wedderburn (to 4 March 1942)
4 March 1942: Allan Chapman
Allan Chapman (politician)
Allan Chapman was a Scottish Unionist Party politician. He was elected at the 1935 general election as Member of Parliament for the Rutherglen constituency in Lanarkshire...

(to 26 July 1945)
26 May 1945: Thomas Galbraith
Thomas Dunlop Galbraith, 1st Baron Strathclyde
Thomas Dunlop Galbraith, 1st Baron Strathclyde PC was a Scottish Unionist Party politician.He studied at Glasgow Academy; Eastmans, Southsea; Royal Naval College Osborne and Royal Naval College Dartmouth...

(to 26 July 1945)
4 August 1945: George Buchanan
George Buchanan (politician)
George Buchanan was born in Glasgow, Scotland. A committed socialist, he joined the Independent Labour Party .Buchanan was vice-chairman of Glasgow Trades Council and sat on the city council from 1919 to 1923...

(to 7 October 1947)
4 August 1945: Tom Fraser
Tom Fraser
Tom Fraser PC was a Labour Member of Parliament for the Hamilton constituency between 1943 and 1967.He was Minister of Transport from October 16, 1964 until December 23, 1965...

(to 26 October 1951)
7 October 1947: John Robertson
John Robertson (Berwick MP)
John James Robertson was a Scottish Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament from 1945–1951....

(to 26 October 1951)
2 March 1950: Margaret Herbison
Margaret Herbison
Margaret McCrorie Herbison was a Scottish Labour politician.Educated at Bellshill Academy and the University of Glasgow, her early career was spent as a teacher of English and history and as an economics lecturer for the National Council of Labour Colleges. The daughter of a miner, she would later...

(to 26 October 1951)
2 November 1951:Thomas Galbraith
Thomas Dunlop Galbraith, 1st Baron Strathclyde
Thomas Dunlop Galbraith, 1st Baron Strathclyde PC was a Scottish Unionist Party politician.He studied at Glasgow Academy; Eastmans, Southsea; Royal Naval College Osborne and Royal Naval College Dartmouth...

(to 5 April 1955)
2 November 1951: William McNair Snadden
William McNair Snadden
Sir William McNair Snadden, 1st Baronet JP was a Scottish Tory politician.The youngest son of Reverend James Snadden, he was educated at Dollar Academy...

(to 3 June 1955)
4 February 1952: James Henderson Stewart
Sir James Henderson-Stewart, 1st Baronet
Sir James Henderson-Stewart, 1st Baronet, was a British banker, Army officer and politician. He was a National Liberal Member of Parliament for East Fife from 1933 until his death, and was the sessional chairman of the Parliamentary Party in 1945...

(to 9 January 1957)
7 April 1955: Jack Nixon Browne (to 9 January 1957)
13 June 1955: Niall Macpherson
Niall Macpherson, 1st Baron Drumalbyn
Niall Malcolm Stewart Macpherson, 1st Baron Drumalbyn KBE, PC was a Scottish Tory and National Liberal politician.-Background and education:...

(to 9 January 1957)
18 January 1957: Jack Nixon Browne (to 22 October 1959)
19 January 1957: Niall Macpherson
Niall Macpherson, 1st Baron Drumalbyn
Niall Malcolm Stewart Macpherson, 1st Baron Drumalbyn KBE, PC was a Scottish Tory and National Liberal politician.-Background and education:...

(to 28 October 1960)
18 January 1957: Lord John Hope
John Hope, 1st Baron Glendevon
John Adrian Louis Hope, 1st Baron Glendevon PC , known as Lord John Hope from 1912 to 1964, was a Scottish Tory politician....

(to 22 October 1959)
22 October 1959: Tam Galbraith
Tam Galbraith
The Hon. Sir Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith, KBE , was a British Conservative politician....

(to 8 November 1962)
22 October 1959: Gilmour Leburn
Gilmour Leburn
Gilmour Leburn was a British company director and politician. He served in the government of Harold Macmillan as a Minister in the Scottish Office; his sudden death opened the way for Macmillan's successor, Sir Alec Douglas-Home to return to the House of Commons.-Early life:Leburn went to...

(to 15 August 1963)
28 October 1960: Richard Brooman-White
Richard Brooman-White
Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Charles Brooman-White was a British journalist, intelligence agent and politician for the Conservative Party.-Education:...

(to 12 December 1963)
3 December 1962: The Lady Tweedsmuir
Priscilla Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir
Priscilla Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir and Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, PC was a Unionist and Conservative politician....

(to 16 October 1964)
19 August 1963: Anthony Stodart (to 16 October 1964)
12 December 1963: Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell, Baron Campbell of Croy
Gordon Thomas Calthrop Campbell, Baron Campbell of Croy, MC, PC, DL , born in Lossiemouth, Moray, and a Scottish Conservative & Unionist politician....

(to 16 October 1964)
21 October 1964: The Lord Hughes
William Hughes, Baron Hughes
William Hughes, Baron Hughes PC CBE was a Labour party politician in the United Kingdom.He unsuccessfully stood twice to become a Member of Parliament before becoming a life peer on 7 February 1961 as Baron Hughes, of Hawkhill in the County of the City of Dundee.In Harold Wilson's first...

(to 13 October 1969)
20 October 1964: Dickson Mabon
Dickson Mabon
Dr. Jesse Dickson "Dick" Mabon PC FRSA was a Scottish politician, physician and company director. He was the founder of The Manifesto Group of Labour MPs, an alliance of moderate MPs against the perceived leftward drift of the Labour Party in the 1970s. He was a Labour Co-operative MP until...

(to 7 January 1967)
6 April 1966: Bruce Millan
Bruce Millan
Bruce Millan is a Scottish Labour politician. He was born in Dundee and educated at the Harris Academy in that city.He was elected as Member of Parliament for Glasgow Craigton at the 1959 general election and served for that seat, and after its abolition for Glasgow Govan, until 1988...

(to 19 June 1970)
7 January 1967: Norman Buchan
Norman Buchan
Norman Findlay Buchan was a Labour politician, who represented the West Renfrewshire seat from 1964 until 1983 and the Paisley South seat from 1983 to 1990....

(to 19 June 1970)
24 June 1970: Alick Buchanan-Smith
Alick Buchanan-Smith
Alick Laidlaw Buchanan-Smith was a Scottish Conservative and Unionist politician.The second son of Alick Drummond Buchanan-Smith, Baron Balerno and Mary Kathleen Smith, he was educated at Edinburgh Academy, Glenalmond College, Pembroke College, Cambridge and University of Edinburgh...

(to 4 March 1974)
24 June 1970: George Younger
George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie
George Kenneth Hotson Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie KT KCVO TD PC was a British politician and banker....

(to 8 January 1974)
24 June 1970: Teddy Taylor
Teddy Taylor
Sir Edward MacMillan Taylor, usually known as Teddy Taylor , is a British Conservative Party politician who was a Member of Parliament from 1964 to 1979 for Glasgow Cathcart and from 1980 to 2005 for Rochford and Southend East.He was a leading member and sometime Vice-President of the Conservative...

(to 28 July 1971)
28 July 1971: Hector Monro
Hector Monro, Baron Monro of Langholm
Hector Seymour Peter Monro, Baron Monro of Langholm, AE, PC , was a Conservative & Unionist Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for Dumfries for 33 years, from 1964 to 1997, and then a life peer in the House of Lords....

(to 4 March 1974)
8 January 1974: Teddy Taylor
Teddy Taylor
Sir Edward MacMillan Taylor, usually known as Teddy Taylor , is a British Conservative Party politician who was a Member of Parliament from 1964 to 1979 for Glasgow Cathcart and from 1980 to 2005 for Rochford and Southend East.He was a leading member and sometime Vice-President of the Conservative...

(to 4 March 1974)
11 March 1974: Robert Hughes
Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside
Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside is a British Labour politician.Educated at Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen and in South Africa where he lived 1947–1954, he worked as a draughtsman...

(to 22 July 1975)
28 June 1974: Hugh Brown
Hugh Brown (British politician)
Hugh Dunbar Brown was a British Labour Party politician. After serving as a councillor on the Glasgow Corporation, he was Member of Parliament for Glasgow Provan for 23 years. He has been described as the last "Red Clydesider"....

(to 4 May 1979)
18 October 1974: Harry Ewing
Harry Ewing, Baron Ewing of Kirkford
Harry Ewing, Baron Ewing of Kirkford DL was a Labour politician in Scotland. He served as a Member of Parliament for 21 years, from a by-election in 1971 until the 1992 general election, when he became a life peer...

(to 4 May 1979)
12 September 1975: Frank McElhone
Frank McElhone
Francis Patrick "Frank" McElhone was a Scottish Labour Party politician.McElhone was elected Member of Parliament for Glasgow Gorbals at a 1969 by-election, serving until the constituency was abolished in boundary changes for the 1974 general election.He was then elected as MP for Glasgow Queen's...

(to 4 May 1979)
7 May 1979: Alex Fletcher
Alexander MacPherson Fletcher
Sir Alexander MacPherson Fletcher was a British Conservative Party politician.Fletcher was elected as the Member of Parliament for Edinburgh North at a by-election in 1973, serving there until 1983, when after boundary changes he became MP for Edinburgh Central...

(to 14 June 1983)
7 May 1979: Russell Fairgrieve (to 15 September 1981)
7 May 1979: Malcolm Rifkind
Malcolm Rifkind
Sir Malcolm Leslie Rifkind KCMG QC MP is a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament for Kensington. He served in various roles as a cabinet minister under Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major, including Secretary of State for Scotland , Defence Secretary and...

(to 6 April 1982)
15 September 1981: Allan Stewart
Allan Stewart (politician)
Allan Stewart , is a former Scottish Conservative politician.Educated at Bell Baxter High School, St. Andrews University and Harvard University, where he obtained a first class degree, he was a lecturer in Political Economy at St. Andrews before unsuccessfully standing for the Dundee East...

(to 10 September 1986)
6 April 1982: John MacKay (to 14 June 1987)
13 June 1983: Michael Ancram
Michael Ancram
Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr, 13th Marquess of Lothian, PC, QC , known as Michael Ancram, is a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician. He is a member of the House of Lords, former Member of Parliament, and a former member of the Shadow Cabinet...

(to 14 June 1987)
10 September 1986: Ian Lang
Ian Lang
Ian Bruce Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton PC is a former British Conservative MP for Galloway from 1979 to 1983 and for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale from 1983 to 1997....

(to 13 June 1987)
13 June 1987: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton
James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas
James Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, PC, QC , briefly The 11th Earl of Selkirk and styled Lord James Douglas-Hamilton until 1997, is a Scottish Conservative politician who served as Member of Parliament for Edinburgh West then Member of the Scottish Parliament for the...

(to 6 July 1995)
13 June 1987: Michael Forsyth
Michael Forsyth, Baron Forsyth of Drumlean
Michael Bruce Forsyth, Baron Forsyth of Drumlean PC, Kt is a British financier and politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Stirling from 1983 to 1997 and served in the cabinet of John Major as Secretary of State for Scotland from 1995 to 1997...

(to 7 September 1990)
7 September 1990: The Lord Strathclyde
Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde
Thomas Galloway Dunlop du Roy de Blicquy Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde, PC , is a British politician. He is currently the Leader of the House of Lords and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster as well as being the leader of the Conservative Party in the House of Lords...

(to 14 April 1992)
28 November 1990: Allan Stewart
Allan Stewart (politician)
Allan Stewart , is a former Scottish Conservative politician.Educated at Bell Baxter High School, St. Andrews University and Harvard University, where he obtained a first class degree, he was a lecturer in Political Economy at St. Andrews before unsuccessfully standing for the Dundee East...

(to 8 February 1995)
8 February 1995: George Kynoch (to 2 May 1997)
14 April 1992: Sir Hector Monro
Hector Monro, Baron Monro of Langholm
Hector Seymour Peter Monro, Baron Monro of Langholm, AE, PC , was a Conservative & Unionist Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for Dumfries for 33 years, from 1964 to 1997, and then a life peer in the House of Lords....

(to 6 July 1995)
6 July 1995: The Earl of Lindsay
James Lindesay-Bethune, 16th Earl of Lindsay
James Randolph Lindesay-Bethune, 16th Earl of Lindsay, DL, is a Scottish nobleman, businessman and Conservative politician....

(to 2 May 1997)
6 July 1995: Raymond Robertson
Raymond Robertson (politician)
Raymond Scott Robertson and was educated at Glasgow University, graduating Master of Arts with Honours in Modern History and Politics. During the 1980s he taught Modern Studies at Dumbarton Academy...

(to 2 May 1997)
6 May 1997: Sam Galbraith
Sam Galbraith
Samuel Laird "Sam" Galbraith is a Scottish Labour Party politician. He is a former Member of Parliament and a former Member of the Scottish Parliament....

(to 29 July 1999)
6 May 1997: The Lord Sewel
John Sewel, Baron Sewel
John Buttifant Sewel, Baron Sewel CBE, BA, MScEcon, PhD, LL.D is a Labour Party member of the House of Lords, former Senior Vice Principal of the University of Aberdeen and former parliamentary Under-Secretary of State...

(to 29 July 1999)
6 May 1997: Malcolm Chisholm
Malcolm Chisholm
Malcolm Chisholm is a Scottish Labour Party politician, and a former Scottish Executive minister.-Background:Chisholm was educated at George Watson's College and the University of Edinburgh and became an English teacher. He is married with three children...

(to 10 December 1997)
11 December 1997: Calum MacDonald (to 29 July 1999)
3 August 1998: The Lord Macdonald of Tradeston
Gus Macdonald, Baron Macdonald of Tradeston
Angus John "Gus" Macdonald, Baron Macdonald of Tradeston, CBE, PC , is a member of the House of Lords, taking the Labour Party Whip....

(to 29 July 1999)
29 July 1999: vacant
29 May 2002: Anne McGuire
Anne McGuire
Anne Catherine McGuire is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Stirling since 1997.-Early life:...

(to 11 May 2005)
11 May 2005: David Cairns
David Cairns (politician)
John David Cairns was a Scottish Labour Party politician, who was a Member of Parliament from 2001 until his death. He represented the constituency of Inverclyde. He was the Minister of State at the Scotland Office until he resigned on 16 September 2008...

(to 2007, thereafter Minister of State)
16 September 2008: Ann McKechin (to 11 May 2010)
11 May 2010: David Mundell
David Mundell
David Gordon Mundell is a British Conservative politician and, since 2005, he has been the only Conservative Member of Parliament representing a Scottish Westminster constituency...

(to present)

Minister of State for Scotland (1951-)

2 November 1951: The Earl of Home
Alec Douglas-Home
Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, KT, PC , known as The Earl of Home from 1951 to 1963 and as Sir Alec Douglas-Home from 1963 to 1974, was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1963 to October 1964.He is the last...
7 April 1955:Thomas Galbraith
Thomas Dunlop Galbraith, 1st Baron Strathclyde
Thomas Dunlop Galbraith, 1st Baron Strathclyde PC was a Scottish Unionist Party politician.He studied at Glasgow Academy; Eastmans, Southsea; Royal Naval College Osborne and Royal Naval College Dartmouth...
23 October 1958: The Lord Forbes
Nigel Forbes, 22nd Lord Forbes
Nigel Ivan Forbes, 22nd Lord Forbes, KBE, JP, DL , known as the Master of Forbes until 1953, is a Scottish soldier, businessman and Conservative politician....
22 October 1959: Jack Nixon Browne
20 October 1964: George Willis
7 January 1967: Dickson Mabon
Dickson Mabon
Dr. Jesse Dickson "Dick" Mabon PC FRSA was a Scottish politician, physician and company director. He was the founder of The Manifesto Group of Labour MPs, an alliance of moderate MPs against the perceived leftward drift of the Labour Party in the 1970s. He was a Labour Co-operative MP until...

(to 19 June 1970)
13 October 1969: The Lord Hughes
William Hughes, Baron Hughes
William Hughes, Baron Hughes PC CBE was a Labour party politician in the United Kingdom.He unsuccessfully stood twice to become a Member of Parliament before becoming a life peer on 7 February 1961 as Baron Hughes, of Hawkhill in the County of the City of Dundee.In Harold Wilson's first...

(to 19 June 1970)
23 June 1970: The Lady Tweedsmuir
Priscilla Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir
Priscilla Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir and Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, PC was a Unionist and Conservative politician....
7 April 1972: The Lord Polwarth
Henry Hepburne-Scott, 10th Lord Polwarth
Henry Alexander Hepburne-Scott, 10th Lord Polwarth TD , was a Scottish chartered accountant, businessman and Conservative politician....
8 March 1974: Bruce Millan
Bruce Millan
Bruce Millan is a Scottish Labour politician. He was born in Dundee and educated at the Harris Academy in that city.He was elected as Member of Parliament for Glasgow Craigton at the 1959 general election and served for that seat, and after its abolition for Glasgow Govan, until 1988...

(to 8 April 1976)
8 March 1974: The Lord Hughes
William Hughes, Baron Hughes
William Hughes, Baron Hughes PC CBE was a Labour party politician in the United Kingdom.He unsuccessfully stood twice to become a Member of Parliament before becoming a life peer on 7 February 1961 as Baron Hughes, of Hawkhill in the County of the City of Dundee.In Harold Wilson's first...

(to 8 August 1975)
8 August 1975: The Lord Kirkhill
John Smith, Baron Kirkhill
John Farquharson Smith, Baron Kirkhill is a life peer in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom .He was Lord Provost of the City of Aberdeen from 1971 to 1975 and Minister of State for Scotland from 8 August 1975 to 15 December 1978.He was Chairman of the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board...

(to 15 December 1978)
14 April 1976: Gregor Mackenzie
Gregor Mackenzie
James Gregor Mackenzie was a British Labour Party politician.Mackenzie was educated at the Royal Technical College and Glasgow University...

(to 4 May 1979)
7 May 1979: The Earl of Mansfield
William Murray, 8th Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield
William David Mungo James Murray, 8th Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield, DL, JP , styled Lord Scone until 1970, is a Scottish nobleman and Conservative politician....
13 June 1983: The Lord Gray of Contin
Hamish Gray, Baron Gray of Contin
James Hector Northey Gray, Baron Gray of Contin, PC, DL, , known as Hamish Gray, was a Scottish politician and life peer....
10 September 1986: The Lord Glenarthur
Simon Arthur, 4th Baron Glenarthur
Major Simon Mark Arthur, 4th Baron Glenarthur DL, FCILT, FRAeS is a British peer, pilot and businessman. Having succeeded to his father's titles in 1976, he is one of the ninety hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act 1999, and sits as a...
13 June 1987: Ian Lang
Ian Lang
Ian Bruce Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton PC is a former British Conservative MP for Galloway from 1979 to 1983 and for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale from 1983 to 1997....

(to 28 November 1990)
13 June 1987: The Lord Sanderson of Bowden
Charles Sanderson, Baron Sanderson of Bowden
Russell Sanderson, Baron Sanderson of Bowden is a British Conservative Party politician and a life peer in the House of Lords....

(to 7 September 1990)
7 September 1990: Michael Forsyth
Michael Forsyth, Baron Forsyth of Drumlean
Michael Bruce Forsyth, Baron Forsyth of Drumlean PC, Kt is a British financier and politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Stirling from 1983 to 1997 and served in the cabinet of John Major as Secretary of State for Scotland from 1995 to 1997...
14 April 1992: The Lord Fraser of Carmyllie
Peter Fraser, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie
Peter Lovat Fraser, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie, PC, QC is a Scottish politician and advocate.He was educated at Loretto School, Musselburgh, East Lothian, and graduated BA and LLM , Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, before going to the University of Edinburgh...
6 July 1995: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton
James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas
James Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, PC, QC , briefly The 11th Earl of Selkirk and styled Lord James Douglas-Hamilton until 1997, is a Scottish Conservative politician who served as Member of Parliament for Edinburgh West then Member of the Scottish Parliament for the...
6 May 1997: Henry McLeish
Henry McLeish
Henry Baird McLeish is a Scottish Labour Party politician, author and academic. Formerly a professional association football player, McLeish was the Member of Parliament for Central Fife from 1987 to 2001 and the Member of the Scottish Parliament for Central Fife from 1999 to 2003, during which...

(to 29 Jun 1999)
6 May 1997: Brian Wilson (to 28 July 1998)
28 July 1998: Helen Liddell
Helen Liddell
Helen Lawrie Liddell, Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Monklands East from 1994 to 1997, and then for Airdrie and Shotts until 2005, whereafter she became the British High Commissioner to Australia until 2009...

(to 17 May 1999)
29 July 1999: Brian Wilson
26 January 2001: George Foulkes
George Foulkes, Baron Foulkes of Cumnock
George Foulkes, Baron Foulkes of Cumnock, PC is a British Labour Party life peer. He has been a member of the House of Commons, the House of Lords and the Scottish Parliament...

(to 29 May 2002)
July 2007: David Cairns (politician)
David Cairns (politician)
John David Cairns was a Scottish Labour Party politician, who was a Member of Parliament from 2001 until his death. He represented the constituency of Inverclyde. He was the Minister of State at the Scotland Office until he resigned on 16 September 2008...

(16 September 2008)

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