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.
| United Kingdom Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland | |
|---|---|
Royal Arms of His Majesty's Government in Scotland | |
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 |
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 is currently one Under-Secretary 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Glasgow North | 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 | 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)
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