Colin Beattie

Colin Beattie


Member of the Scottish Parliament for Midlothian North and Musselburgh
In office 5 May 2011 – 24 March 2016
Preceded by	Constituency created
Majority	2,996 (10.0%)
Personal details
Born	(1951-10-17) 17 October 1951 Forfar
Nationality	British
Political party	Scottish National Party
Spouse(s)	Liza
Residence	Scotland
Occupation	SNP National Treasurer

Colin Beattie (born 17 October 1951)^[1] has been the Scottish National Party (SNP) member of the Scottish Parliament for Midlothian North and Musselburgh since 2011.

He won the newly created seat in the 2011 Scottish Parliament election with a majority of just under 3000 votes.^[1] Beattie previously worked as a banker and was SNP group leader on Midlothian Council.^[1] Colin Beattie is also the current serving SNP National Treasurer.

Beattie was formally censured in 2013 by the Standards Commission for Scotland for breaching the Councillors’ code of Conduct for failing to register interest in property whilst a councillor.^[2]^[3]

References

1 2 3 Reynolds, Rory (6 May 2011). "Beattie claims new seat with 'historic' win over Labour". Edinburgh Evening News. Retrieved 8 May 2011.
↑ Standards Commission Scotland NEWS RELEASE - 18 June 2013 - MIDLOTHIAN HEARING - Councillor Lisa Beattie of MIDLOTHIAN COUNCIL and Mr Colin Beattie MSP (a Former Councillor in MIDLOTHIAN)
↑ Scotsman

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Party political offices
Preceded by Jim Mather	Treasurer of the Scottish National Party 2004–present	Succeeded by Incumbent

Scottish National Party MSPs

Cabinet Secretaries	Nicola Sturgeon John Swinney Angela Constance Michael Matheson Keith Brown Richard Lochhead Shona Robison Roseanna Cunningham Fiona Hyslop Alex Neil

Ministers	Fergus Ewing Joe FitzPatrick Derek Mackay Annabelle Ewing Aileen Campbell Alasdair Allan Maureen Watt Jamie Hepburn Marco Biagi Margaret Burgess Paul Wheelhouse Humza Yousaf Aileen McLeod

Backbench	George Adam Clare Adamson Christian Allard Colin Beattie Chic Brodie Roderick Campbell Willie Coffey Bruce Crawford Graeme Dey Nigel Don Bob Doris James Dornan Jim Eadie Linda Fabiani Jeane Freeman Kenneth Gibson Jenny Gilruth Christine Grahame Clare Haughey Colin Keir Bill Kidd Richard Lyle Angus MacDonald Gordon MacDonald Mike MacKenzie John Mason Stewart Maxwell Joan McAlpine Mark McDonald Christina McKelvie Fiona McLeod Stuart McMillan Gil Paterson Dennis Robertson Michael Russell Stewart Stevenson Kevin Stewart David Torrance Sandra White

Members of the Scottish Parliament in the Lothians region

Elected in the 2011 election

Constituency MSPs	Angela Constance (SNP, Almond Valley) Marco Biagi (SNP, Edinburgh Central) Kenny MacAskill (SNP, Edinburgh Eastern) Malcolm Chisholm (Lab, Edinburgh Northern and Leith) Gordon MacDonald (SNP, Edinburgh Pentlands) Jim Eadie (SNP, Edinburgh Southern) Colin Keir (SNP, Edinburgh Western) Fiona Hyslop (SNP, Linlithgow) Colin Beattie (SNP, Midlothian North and Musselburgh)

Additional members	Gavin Brown (Con) Sarah Boyack (Lab) Kezia Dugdale (Lab) Neil Findlay (Lab) Alison Johnstone (Green) Margo MacDonald (Ind) David McLetchie (Con)

SNP (8 seats), Labour (4 seats), Conservative (2 seats), Greens (1 seat), Independent (1 seat)

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