Shona Robison

Shona Robison MSP
Official portrait, 2024
Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government[a]
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 March 2023
First Minister	Humza Yousaf John Swinney
Preceded by	Kate Forbes
Deputy First Minister of Scotland
In office 29 March 2023 – 8 May 2024
First Minister	Humza Yousaf
Preceded by	John Swinney
Succeeded by	Kate Forbes
Ministerial offices 2007‍–‍2023 Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Housing and Local Government[b] In office 20 May 2021 – 28 March 2023 First Minister Nicola Sturgeon Preceded by Shirley-Anne Somerville (Social Security) Aileen Campbell (Communities and Local Government) Succeeded by Shirley-Anne Somerville In office 22 April 2014 – 21 November 2014 First Minister Alex Salmond Preceded by Office established Succeeded by Alex Neil Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport In office 21 November 2014 – 26 June 2018 First Minister Nicola Sturgeon Preceded by Alex Neil Succeeded by Jeane Freeman Minister for Commonwealth Games and Sport In office 19 May 2011 – 22 April 2014 First Minister Alex Salmond Preceded by Office created Succeeded by Office abolished Minister for Public Health and Sport In office 17 May 2007 – 19 May 2011 First Minister Alex Salmond Preceded by Lewis Macdonald Succeeded by Michael Matheson
Parliamentary offices 1999‍–‍present Member of the Scottish Parliament for Dundee City East Dundee East (2003–2011) Incumbent Assumed office 1 May 2003 Preceded by John McAllion Majority 13,337 (41.1%) Member of the Scottish Parliament for North East Scotland (1 of 7 Regional MSPs) In office 6 May 1999 – 1 May 2003
Personal details
Born	Shona McRory Robison (1966-05-26) 26 May 1966 (age 58) Redcar, North Riding of Yorkshire, England
Political party	Scottish National Party
Spouse	Stewart Hosie ​ ​ (m. 1997; div. 2017)​ [1]
Children	1
Alma mater	University of Glasgow Jordanhill College
Website	shona.robison.scot

Shona McRory Robison (born 26 May 1966) is a Scottish politician who has served as Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government since 2023.^[a] A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), she previously served as Deputy First Minister of Scotland from 2023 to 2024. Robison has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Dundee City East since 2003^[c] and was an additional member for the North East Scotland region from 1999 to 2003.

Robison served as Minister for Public Health and Sport from 2007 to 2011. She then oversaw the Scottish Government's preparations for the 2014 Commonwealth Games as Minister for Commonwealth Games and Sport from 2011 to April 2014, when she was promoted to the Scottish Cabinet by Alex Salmond as Cabinet Secretary for Commonwealth Games, Sport, Equalities and Pensioners' Rights. When Nicola Sturgeon succeeded Salmond as First Minister in November 2014, she appointed Robison the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport.

In 2018, she resigned from government during a cabinet reshuffle after being widely criticised for her poorly received tenure as Health Secretary.^[3][4][5] She returned to the backbenches, where she served on the justice and health committees. In 2021, Robison returned to Sturgeon's government as the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Housing and Local Government. During her tenure in the position, she oversaw the government's efforts to pass the controversial Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill.

Following Sturgeon's resignation as first minister in 2023, Robison was appointed Deputy First Minister and Finance Secretary by Humza Yousaf in his new government. After Yousaf's resignation and the subsequent appointment of John Swinney as First Minister in 2024, Robison resigned as Deputy First Minister but retained her finance portfolio in Cabinet, with additional responsibility for local government.

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