Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Communities and Pensioners' Rights

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The Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Communities, and Pensioners' Rights is a position in the Scottish Government Cabinet. The Cabinet Secretary has overall responsibility for elections, local government, community planning, housing, welfare, the third sector, equality and human rights. The Cabinet Secretary is assisted by two junior Ministers: the Minister for Local Government and Community Empowerment and the Minister for Housing and Welfare.

The current Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Communities, and Pensioners' Rights is Alex Neil, who was appointed in November 2014.

Responsibilities

Social justice, democratic renewal, elections, community empowerment, community planning, planning, building standards, business improvement districts, town centres, housing, welfare, measures against poverty and homelessness, the third sector and the social economy, equality, social and human rights, religious and faith organisations, cross-government co-ordination on pensioners’ rights and welfare.

History

From 2007 to 2009 the Minister for Communities and Sport was a junior ministerial post in the Scottish Government. In 2009, sport was linked with public health and the role became the Minister for Housing and Communities.

Following the 2011 election, the role was reorganised as Minister for Housing and Welfare^[1] but as a junior ministerial position, the Minister did not attend the Scottish Cabinet.^[2]

The cabinet post was created in November 2014 as a result of Nicola Sturgeon's reshuffle. The reshuffle meant that another previous Cabinet post, that of the short-lived (since April 2014) Cabinet Secretary for Commonwealth Games, Sport, Equalities and Pensioners' Rights post, was abolished.

References

↑ "Scottish Parliament Fact sheet Ministers, Law Officers and Parliamentary Liaison Officers by Cabinet: Session 4" (PDF). Scottish Parliament. 21 August 2014. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
↑ Scotland Act (1998), Only those appointed under Section 47 of the Scotland Act "attend" Cabinet. Junior ministers are appointed under Section 49 and may be "present".

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Scottish Cabinet

Nicola Sturgeon (First Minister)
John Swinney (Deputy First Minister and Finance, Constitution and Economy)
Keith Brown (Infrastructure, Investment and Cities)
Roseanna Cunningham (Fair Work, Skills and Training)
Angela Constance (Education and Lifelong Learning)
Shona Robison (Health, Wellbeing and Sport)
Alex Neil (Social Justice, Communities and Pensioners' Rights)
Michael Matheson (Justice)
Richard Lochhead (Rural Affairs, Food and Environment)
Fiona Hyslop (Culture, Europe and External Affairs)

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