Tavish Scott

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Tavish Scott MSP
Scotland Minister for Transport
In office 2005 – 2007
Constituency	Shetland
Born	6 May 1966 (1966-05-06) (age 42)
Political party	Scottish Liberal Democrats

Tavish Scott (born 6 May 1966) is a Scottish politician. He is a former Minister for Transport, Deputy Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Shetland. He is currently Lib Dem finance and sustainable growth spokesman in the Scottish Parliament.

Tavish Scott attended Anderson High School, Lerwick, Shetland and holds a BA from Napier College, Edinburgh (now Napier University). After graduating, he worked as a parliamentary assistant to Jim Wallace, then MP for Orkney and Shetland. Prior to entering the Scottish Parliament he was a farmer, a councillor on Shetland Islands Council and Chairman of the Lerwick Harbour Trust.

He used to be a junior member of the Scottish Executive responsible for finance and public services, but following Nicol Stephen's election as party leader and succession as Deputy First Minister of Scotland, Tavish Scott was appointed Minister for Transport in the Scottish Executive in 2005.

He was re-elected with an increased majority in May 2007 [1], and held the largest margin, 50.1%, of any MSP over his closest challenger.

Tavish Scott
v • d • e Members of the Scottish Parliament in the Highlands and Islands region Elected in the 2007 election SNP (6 seats), Lib Dem (4 seats), Labour (3 seats), Conservative (2 seats) Constituency MSPs Jim Mather (SNP, Argyll and Bute) • Jamie Stone (Lib Dem, Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) • Fergus Ewing (SNP, Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber) • Richard Lochhead (SNP, Moray) • Liam McArthur (Lib Dem, Orkney) • John Farquhar Munro (Lib Dem, Ross, Skye and Inverness West) • Tavish Scott (Lib Dem, Shetland) • Alasdair Allan (SNP, Western Isles) Additional Members Rob Gibson (SNP) • Rhoda Grant (Lab) • Jamie McGrigor (Con) • Peter Peacock (Lab) • Mary Scanlon (Con) • David Stewart (Lab) • David Thompson (SNP) v • d • e Scottish Liberal Democrat MSPs Elected in the 2007 election Robert Brown • Ross Finnie • Jim Hume • Hugh O'Donnell • Liam McArthur • Alison McInnes • John Farquhar Munro • Mike Pringle • Jeremy Purvis • Mike Rumbles • Tavish Scott • Iain Smith • Margaret Smith • Nicol Stephen • Jamie Stone • Jim Tolson

[edit] External links

• Tavish Scott MSP official site
• Tavish Scott MSP official biography at the Scottish Parliament website
• Tavish Scott MSP profile at the site of Scottish Liberal Democrats
• Scottish Executive