Scottish Government

Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth

John Swinney MSP
Responsibilities:  Economy, Employment, Scottish Budget, Budgetary Monitoring, Public Sector Pay Policy, Pensions Agency (SPPA), Public Service Reform and Delivery, Efficient Government, Simplification of the Public Sector Landscape/Public Bodies/Scrutiny, , Community Business and Co-operative Development, Third Sector and Social Economy, Relocation

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Minister for Energy, Enterprise
and Tourism

Fergus Ewing MSP

Responsibilities:  Energy & Energy Consents, Voluntary Sector & Social Economy, Accountant & bankruptcy, Highlands & Islands Enterprise, Scottish Enterprise, Trade & Inward Investment (inc. SDI), Business & Industry inc manufacturing , Registers of Scotland

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Minister for Local Government
and Planning

Derek Mackay MSP
 

Responsibilities: Local Government, Community Planning, Business Improvement Districts, Elections, Planning, Building Standards

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Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning

Michael Russell MSP
Responsibilities: Teacher and school workforce issues, School infrastructure - building programme and technology, School closures, Further and Higher Education, The Scottish Funding Council, Educational attainment, Performance improvement and reform of education

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Minister for Children and
Young People

Aileen Campbell MSP

Responsibilities:  Social Services workforce, Early Years/Early Intervention, Children’s rights and services and Getting it Right for Every Child, Youth work, Protection of Vulnerable Groups, Child protection, adoption and fostering,  Looked after Children and Children’s Hearings

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Minister for Learning, Science and
Scotland's Languages

Dr Alasdair Allan MSP

Responsibilities:  Gaelic and Scots, Modern Languages and Scottish Studies, Scottish Education Quality and Improvement Agency,
Scottish Qualifications Authority, Behaviour, Bullying,
Skills Strategy, Non-advanced vocational skills                                            

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Minister for Youth Employment

Angela Constance MSP

Responsibilities:   Employability for 16-24 year olds, Ministerial oversight of Skills Development Scotland (SDS) activity , Engagement with employers and employer bodies on youth employment, Engagement with DWP, third sector bodies and local authorities on support for young people, Coordinating cross government activity to support young people into work.

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Cabinet Secretary for Justice

Kenny MacAskill MSP
Responsibilities:  Police, Football legislation and Joint Action Group, Prisons and sentencing policy, Reducing reoffending, Victims and witnesses, Life sentence prisoner casework, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal justice social work and system reform, Legal Aid and Legal Profession, Youth justice, Liquor Licensing, Resilience

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Minister for Community Safety and Legal Affairs

Roseanna Cunningham MSP

Responsibilities:  Community safety and anti-social behaviour, Sectarianism, Violence, Human rights, Drugs, Drugs Policy, Civil law, Fire and rescue, Religious and faith organisations

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Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment

Richard Lochhead MSP
Responsibilities: Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development, Environment and Natural Heritage, , sustainable development, Food and Drink

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Minister for Environment and Climate Change

Paul Wheelhouse MSP
Responsibilities:   Forestry Commission Scotland, Biodiversity, Crofting, National Parks and Environmental Justice, Flooding, Scottish Natural Heritage, Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Aquaculture, Land Reform, Water quality regulation

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