Cabinet Sturgeon I

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The Sturgeon I cabinet was formed after the resignation of Alex Salmond . Nicola Sturgeon was elected First Minister by the Scottish Parliament on November 19, 2014 .

As under Salmond, the government was a sole government of the Scottish National Party , which won an absolute majority of the seats in the 2011 parliamentary elections . In the parliamentary elections in Scotland in 2016 , the SNP lost its absolute majority, and Nicola Sturgeon then formed the Sturgeon II cabinet as a minority government .

Members

Cabinet Sturgeon I
Minister (Cabinet Secretary) Surname Political party State Secretary (Junior Minister) Political party
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon SNP
Deputy First Minister for
Finance, Constitution and Economy		 John Swinney SNP Fergus Ewing
Joe FitzPatrick 		SNP
SNP
Infrastructure, investment and urban development Keith Brown SNP Derek Mackay SNP
Fair work, skills and training Roseanna Cunningham SNP Annabelle Ewing SNP
Education and lifelong learning Angela Constance SNP Aileen Campbell
Alasdair Allan 		SNP
SNP
Health, wellbeing and exercise Shona Robison SNP Maureen Watt
Jamie Hepburn 		SNP
SNP
Social justice, local government and pensioners rights Alex Neil SNP Marco Biagi
Margaret Burgess 		SNP
SNP
Judiciary Michael Matheson SNP Paul Wheelhouse SNP
Rural Affairs, Food and the Environment Richard Lochhead SNP Aileen McLeod SNP
Culture, Europe and External Relations Fiona Hyslop SNP Humza Yousaf SNP

The Lord Advocate (Attorney General), currently Frank Mulholland, is also counted among the members of the Cabinet, but is not a minister and has not attended cabinet meetings since 2007.

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