Minister for Parliamentary Business and Veterans
Graeme Dey was appointed Minister for Parliamentary Business and Veterans in September 2025.
Responsibilities
These ministerial pages reflect the position at the start of the pre-election period, on 26 March 2026. A new ministerial team will be announced shortly after the Parliament selects its nominee for First Minister. Up to that point the previous ministerial team remains in post.
Supports the First Minister.
Specific responsibilities are:
- Boundaries Scotland
- Freedom Of Information (FOI)
- Government and parliamentary business
- Government statistics
- local government elections
- Office of the Chief Researcher
- open government and Citizens' Assemblies
- Scottish Parliamentary elections
- veterans' support
Biography
Graeme Dey is MSP for Angus South constituency.
He was born and raised in Aberdeen. After graduating, he pursued a career in journalism - working for the Dundee Courier as a sports journalist. He is married with two grown up children.
Previous ministerial roles have included the portfolios of:
- higher and further education and veterans (2024 to 2025)
- transport from (2021 to 2022)
- parliamentary business and veterans from (2018 to 2021)
Read more about Graeme Dey on the Scottish Parliament website.