\n The First Minister called former and future ministers to Bute House on Wednesday afternoon to learn the roles they would be asked to play in the new SNP government.\n<\/p>\n
\n The exit from parliament of former heavy-hitters such as Kate Forbes<\/a>, Shona Robison<\/a>, and Fiona Hyslop<\/a> had left key roles including deputy first minister, finance secretary, and transport secretary empty.\n<\/p>\n \n However, other SNP figures \u2013 including former MPs Stephen Flynn, Stephen Gethins<\/a>, and Alison Thewliss \u2013 were elected to Holyrood<\/a> for the first time, giving Swinney a wider field to choose from.\n<\/p>\n \n Read on for the full list of SNP Cabinet Secretaries for the new Scottish Government<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n All the new Scottish Government Cabinet Secretaries:<\/p>\n Jenny Gilruth, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government<\/p>\n Ivan McKee, Cabinet Secretary for Public Service Reform<\/p>\n Neil Gray, Cabinet Secretary for Justice<\/p>\n Angela Constance, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Care<\/p>\n Gillian Martin, Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Rural Affairs<\/p>\n M\u00e0iri McAllan, Cabinet Secretary for Education, Culture and Gaelic<\/p>\n Shirley-Anne Somerville, Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice and Housing<\/p>\n Stephen Flynn, Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Tourism and Transport<\/p>\n \n The team is a “streamlined” Cabinet, the Scottish Government said, with the number of members cut to eight. Previously, Swinney’s Cabinet consisted of 11 ministers<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n \n The only new addition to the government is Stephen Flynn<\/a>, who resigned his Westminster<\/a> seat after being elected to Holyrood. Ivan McKee, however, is new to Cabinet, having previously been a junior minister.\n<\/p>\n \n Former Cabinet secretaries Mairi Gougeon, Fiona Hyslop, Kate Forbes<\/a>, and Shona Robison all stood down at the 2026 elections, while former culture secretary Angus Robertson failed to be elected after losing his seat to the Greens<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n \n Robertson had overseen independence and the constitution as part of his brief, but those areas will now be directly led by the First Minister.\n<\/p>\n \n Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie said in response to the Cabinet line-up: “The same failed ministers are simply being shuffled around the table with one joker being added to the deck.”\n<\/p>\n \n Cabinet Secretaries are supported in their roles by junior ministers.\n<\/p>\n Here is the full list of Scottish Government junior ministers:<\/p>\n Minister for Europe, External Affairs & Energy, Stephen Gethins<\/p>\n Minister for Parliamentary Business & Veterans, Jamie Hepburn<\/p>\n Minister for Public Finance, Hannah Mary Goodlad (reporting jointly to the Cabinet Secretary for Public Service Reform)<\/p>\n Minister for Public Finance, Hannah Mary Goodlad (reporting jointly to the Deputy First<\/p>\n Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government)<\/p>\n Minister for Victims & Community Safety, Kirsten Oswald<\/p>\n Minister for Community Care, Alison Thewliss<\/p>\n Minister for Mental Wellbeing, Public Health, Sport, Alcohol & Drugs, Maree Todd<\/p>\n Minister for Agriculture, Marine & the Islands, Jim Fairlie<\/p>\n Minister for Children, Young People, & The Promise, Siobhian Brown<\/p>\n Minister for Innovation, Technology & Tertiary Education, Ben Macpherson<\/p>\n Minister for Equalities & International Development, Simita Kumar<\/p>\n Minister for Business & Fair Work, Tom Arthur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The First Minister called former and future ministers to Bute House on Wednesday afternoon to learn the roles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-594807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}