Jayne Baxter

Jayne Baxter


Member of the Scottish Parliament for Mid Scotland and Fife
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 December 2012
Preceded by	John Park
Personal details
Political party	Scottish Labour Party

Jayne Baxter is a Scottish Labour Party politician and a Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region. She succeeded John Park when he resigned his list seat to take up a position with the Community trades union.

A lifelong resident of Fife, she graduated from Edinburgh Napier University in 1995.^[1]

References

↑ "Fife councillor Jayne Baxter sworn in as Holyrood's newest MSP". STV News. Retrieved 19 December 2012.

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Members of the Scottish Parliament in the Mid Scotland and Fife region

Elected in the 2011 election

Constituency MSPs	Keith Brown (SNP, Clackmannanshire and Dunblane) Alex Rowley (Lab, Cowdenbeath) Cara Hilton (Lab, Dunfermline) Tricia Marwick (PO, Fife Mid and Glenrothes) Roderick Campbell (SNP, North East Fife) David Torrance (SNP, Kirkcaldy) John Swinney (SNP, Perthshire North) Roseanna Cunningham (SNP, Perthshire South and Kinross-shire) Bruce Crawford (SNP, Stirling)

Additional members	Claire Baker (Lab) Murdo Fraser (Con) Annabelle Ewing (SNP) John Park (Lab) Willie Rennie (Lib Dem) Richard Simpson (Lab) Elizabeth Smith (Con)

SNP (7 seats), Labour (5 seats), Conservative (2 seats), Lib Dems (1 seat); Presiding Officer (1 seat)

Scottish Labour Party

Headquarters: Transport House, 290 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 4RE

Leaders

Donald Dewar (1999–2000)
Henry McLeish (2000–2001)
Jack McConnell (2001–2007)
Wendy Alexander (2007–2008)
Iain Gray (2008–2011)
Johann Lamont (2011–2014)
Jim Murphy (2014–2015)
Kezia Dugdale (2015–)

Deputy Leaders

Henry McLeish (1999–2000)
Cathy Jamieson (2000–2008)
Johann Lamont (2008–2011)
Anas Sarwar (2011–2014)
Kezia Dugdale (2014–2015)
Alex Rowley (2015–)

General Secretaries

Ben Shaw (1914–1931)
Arthur Woodburn (1932–1939)
John Taylor (1939–1951)
Willie Marshall (1951–1977)
Helen Liddell (1977–1988)
Murray Elder (1988–1992)
Jack McConnell (1992–1998)
Alex Rowley (1998–1999)
Lesley Quinn (1999–2008)
Colin Smyth (2008–2013)
Ian Price (2013–2014)
Brian Roy (2014–)

MSP Group

Shadow Cabinet	Kezia Dugdale (Leader) Alex Rowley (Deputy Leader) Jackie Baillie (Public Services and Wealth Creation) Mary Fee (Reform) Iain Gray (Opportunity) Jenny Marra (Equality) Ken Macintosh (Community) Graeme Pearson (Justice) Sarah Boyack (Environmental Justice) Claire Baker (Democracy) James Kelly (Parliamentary Business) Neil Bibby (Chief Whip)

Shadow Ministers	Lewis Macdonald (Public Services and Wealth Creation) Siobhan McMahon (Public Services and Wealth Creation) Richard Simpson (Public Services and Wealth Creation) Mark Griffin (Opportunity) John Pentland (Opportunity) Neil Findlay (Equality) Rhoda Grant (Equality) Drew Smith (Equality) Jayne Baxter (Community and deputy whip) Michael McMahon (Community) Elaine Murray (Justice) Claudia Beamish (Environmental Justice) David Stewart (Environmental Justice) Anne McTaggart (Democracy)

Backbenchers	Lesley Brennan Malcolm Chisholm Patricia Ferguson Hugh Henry Cara Hilton Johann Lamont Hanzala Malik Paul Martin Margaret McCulloch Margaret McDougall (deputy whip) Duncan McNeil Elaine Smith

MP Group

UK Shadow Cabinet	Ian Murray (Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland)

MEP Group

David Martin
Catherine Stihler

Organisation

Scottish Executive Committee
Scottish Labour Conference
Scottish Policy Forum
Scottish Trade Union Labour Party Committee
Scottish Labour Students
Scottish Young Labour
Campaign for Socialism Group
Review of the Labour Party in Scotland
History

In Government

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