David Stewart (Scottish politician)

For other people named David Stewart, see David Stewart (disambiguation).
David Stewart MSP
Convener of the Scottish Parliament Public Petitions Committee
Incumbent
Assumed office
14 June 2011
Preceded by Rhona Brankin
Member of the Scottish Parliament
for Highlands and Islands
Incumbent
Assumed office
3 May 2007
Member of Parliament
for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber
In office
1 May 1997 – 5 May 2005
Preceded by Constituency Created
Succeeded by Constituency Abolished
Personal details
Born 5 May 1956 (1956-05-05) (age 55)
Political party Scottish Labour Party
Spouse(s) Linda Stewart

David John Stewart (born 5 May 1956) is a Scottish politician. Prior to his election in 1997, he had been a leading member of Labour’s Scottish Executive. He is married to Linda Stewart, who also stood in the 2007 Scottish elections as Labour Party candidate for the Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber Constituency.[1] She however failed to be elected.

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House of Commons

In 1997 he was the first Labour Member of Parliament for the Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber constituency in Scotland until 2005, when the constituency was reformed to Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, an election which he lost to Liberal Democrat candidate Danny Alexander. During his time as an MP, he was a member of the Scottish and Work and Pensions Select Committees and from 2003-05 was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Alistair Darling, Secretary of State for Scotland.

During his time out of office, David was employed as Assistant Director for Rural Affairs with the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations.

Scottish Parliament

In May 2007 he returned to parliamentary life, this time to the Scottish Parliament as a list MSP, in the Highlands and Islands constituency. In October 2008, the Labour Leader in the Scottish Parliament, Iain Gray, appointed him to the shadow cabinet as the Chief Whip of the Labour Party in Holyrood.[2]

References

  1. ^ Election shows politics runs in the family
  2. ^ Scottish Labour's front bench team

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Constituency Created		 Member of Parliament for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber
1997–2005		 Succeeded by
Constituency Abolished
Elected in the 2011 election
Constituency MSPs
Additional Members
John Finnie (SNP) · Rhoda Grant (Lab) · Jamie McGrigor (Con) · Mike MacKenzie (SNP) · Mary Scanlon (Con) · David Stewart (Lab) · Jean Urquhart (SNP)
SNP (9 seats), Lib Dem (2 seats), Labour (2 seats), Conservative (2 seats)
Opposition frontbench
Jackie Baillie (health) · Claire Baker (rural affairs/environment) · Richard Baker (infrastructure) · Sarah Boyack (local government) · Patricia Ferguson (culture/external affairs) · Johann Lamont (leader) · Lewis Macdonald (justice)  · Ken Macintosh (finance) · Paul Martin (parliamentary business)  · Claire Baker (rural affairs/environment) · James Kelly (chief whip)
Attending: ) · Kezia Dugdale (youth employment) · Siobhan McMahon (PPS to Johann Lamont)
Deputy spokespersons
Claudia Beamish (environment/climate change) · Neil Bibby (children) · Neil Findlay (skills) · Rhoda Grant (energy and enterprise) · Jenny Marra (justice) · Elaine Murray (housing and transport) · John Pentland (whip) · Drew Smith (social justice)) · Richard Simpson (public health)
Backbenchers