ARCHIVED Minister for Community Wealth and Public Finance
Responsibilities
Supports the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Finance.
Specific responsibilities are:
- community wealth and community empowerment
- public bodies policy
- public sector pensions
- Scottish Public Pensions Agency
- community wealth building
- cross government delivery of 20 minute neighbourhoods
- local governance review and democratic renewal
- budget revisions
- outturn
- consumer protection – Consumer Scotland policy and advice
- social entrepreneurship and employee-owned businesses
- Registers of Scotland
- statutory debt management and debt relief, diligence and Accountant in Bankruptcy
- procurement shared services
- government procurement
- property
Devolved taxes and Revenue Scotland
- non domestic rates
- council tax
- Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT), including Additional Dwelling Supplement (ADS)
- Scottish Landfill Tax
- Aggregates Levy
- Air Departure Tax