The Scottish and Scotland Offices

'Gordon has installed in the Scottish Office a clutch of ministers who seem determined to pursue a petty-minded and punitive campaign against Scots for the crime of voting SNP. The threats to cut off council tax benefits and to overrule the Scottish Parliament's power to introduce a local income tax were as offensive as they were politically inept.' Iain Macwhirter in the Herald, 14 th April 2008.

The Government of Scotland

Dover House, Home of the Scotland Office

The Scotland Office, 28 th June 2007 -

Labour Government under Rt Hon Dr James Gordon Brown in UK (Scottish National Party Government under Rt Hon Alex Salmond in Scotland)
Date	Secretary of State for Defence & Scotland	Minister of State
28 June 2007 New administration	Rt Hon Desmond Browne MP	Father David Cairns MP1

Previous Scotland Office Ministers

• 27 th July 1999 - 28 th June 2007 (Labour government under Tony Blair)
  
  

Previous Scottish Office Ministers

• 2 nd May 1997 - 27 th July 1999 (Labour government under Tony Blair)
  
  
• 4 th May 1979 - 2 nd May 1997 (Tory government under Margaret Thatcher and John Major)
  
  
• 4 th March 1974 - 4 th May 1979 (Labour government under Harold Wilson and Jim Callaghan)
  
  
• 19 th June 1970 - 4 th March 1974 (Tory government under Ted Heath)
  
  
• 18 th October 1964 - 19 th June 1970 (Labour government under Harold Wilson)
  
  
• 30 th October 1951 - 18 th October 1964 (Tory government under Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Anthony Eden, Harold MacMillan and Sir Alex Douglas-Home)
  
  
• 3 rd August 1945 - 30 th October 1951 (Labour government under Clement Attlee)
  
  
• 25 th May 1945 - 3 rd August 1945 (Caretaker government under Winston Churchill)
  
  
• 14 th May 1940 - 25 th May 1945 (Coalition government under Winston Churchill)
  
  
• 7 th June 1935 - 14 th May 1940 (National government under Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain)
  
  
• 25 th August 1931 - 7 th June 1935 (National government under Ramsay MacDonald)
  
  
• 7 th June 1929 - 25 th August 1931 (Labour government under Ramsay MacDonald)
  
  
• 6 th November 1924 - 7 th June 1929 (Tory government under Stanley Baldwin)
  
  
• 22 nd January 1924 - 6 th November 1924 (Labour government under Ramsay MacDonald)
  
  
• 24 th October 1922 - 22 nd January 1924 (Tory government under Andrew Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin)
  
  
• 10 th December 1916 - 24 th October 1922 (Coalition government under David Lloyd George)
  

  Prior to the 8 th August 1919, the Scottish Office consisted of a single minister, the Scottish Secretary.