Cabinet Secretary for Finance

Shona Robison MSP

Contact

Address

Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Finance
Scottish Government
St Andrew's House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG

Shona Robison was appointed Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Finance in March 2023.

Responsibilities

The Cabinet Secretary is responsible for:

Budget

  • Scottish budget, budgetary monitoring and reporting (including MTFS)
  • fiscal policy and taxation, including income tax
  • exchequer and the public finances
  • public sector pay
  • Scottish Fiscal Commission
  • Fiscal Framework Review
  • local government finance
  • public sector productivity

Biography

Shona was born in Redcar in 1966. Educated at Alva Academy, she went on to graduate from Glasgow University with a Social Sciences MA and Jordanhill College with a Postgraduate Certificate in Community Education. Previously she worked for Glasgow City Council's Social Work Department.

Shona was MSP for the North East from 1999 to 2003 and elected MSP for Dundee East in 2003. Latterly, she was Shadow Minster for Health and Social Justice and a member of the Parliament's Health Committee before being appointed Minister for Public Health in the Scottish Government after the May 2007 election.

She was re-elected in May 2011 and appointed Minister for Commonwealth Games and Sport, and was made Cabinet Secretary for Health in November 2014. She was appointed as Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport in May 2016, and Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Housing and Local Government in May 2021.

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