John Pentland

John Pentland MSP

Member of the Scottish Parliament for Motherwell and Wishaw
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 May 2011
Personal details
Political party	Labour

John Pentland is a Scottish politician representing the Motherwell and Wishaw constituency in the Scottish Parliament.

John served time as a welder with Butters Brothers, Craigneuk and then spent 28 years with British Steel Corporation at the Clyde Alloy plant. He has been a member of the Labour Party for over 30 years, holding numerous branch and CLP positions. He was elected to the former Motherwell District Council in 1992, and served on Planning, Leisure Services, Environmental Health, Staffing, and Policy and Resources Committees. Prior to his election as an MSP, he was Convener of North Lanarkshire Council Finance Committee, he was also finance spokesperson for the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities from 2002 till 2007.^[1]

John Pentland was elected to the Scottish Parliament in the election of 5 May 2011.

External links

johnpentland.org John Pentland MSP (personal website)
scottish.parliament.uk John Pentland MSP (Scottish Parliament website)

References

↑ Scottish Labour Party biographical note

Scottish Labour Party

Headquarters: Transport House, 290 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 4RE

Leaders

Donald Dewar (1999–2000)
Henry McLeish (2000–2001)
Jack McConnell (2001–2007)
Wendy Alexander (2007–2008)
Iain Gray (2008–2011)
Johann Lamont (2011–2014)
Jim Murphy (2014–)

Deputy Leaders

Henry McLeish (1999–2000)
Cathy Jamieson (2000–2008)
Johann Lamont (2008–2011)
Anas Sarwar (2011–2014)
Kezia Dugdale (2014–)

General Secretaries

Jack McConnell (1992–1998)
Alex Rowley (1998–1999)
Lesley Quinn (1999–2008)
Colin Smyth (2008–2013)
Ian Price (2013–)

MSP Group

Shadow Cabinet	Jim Murphy (Leader) Kezia Dugdale (Deputy Leader) Jackie Baillie (Finance, Constitution and Economy) Hugh Henry (Justice) Mary Fee (Investment, Infrastructure and Cities) Neil Findlay (Fair Work, Skills and Trading) Iain Gray (Education and Lifelong Learning) Jenny Marra (Health, Wellbeing and Sport) Ken Macintosh (Social Justice and Communities) Sarah Boyack (Rural Affairs, Food and Environment) Claire Baker (Culture, Europe and External Affairs) James Kelly (Parliamentary Business) Neil Bibby (Chief Whip)

Deputy spokespersons	Claudia Beamish (environment/climate change) Neil Bibby (education) Mary Fee (housing) Mark Griffin (Transport) Rhoda Grant (wellbeing) Elaine Murray (community safety) Richard Simpson (public health)

Backbenchers	Jayne Baxter Malcolm Chisholm Hugh Henry Cara Hilton Ken Macintosh Hanzala Malik Margaret McCulloch (deputy whip) Margaret McDougall Michael McMahon Siobhan McMahon Duncan McNeil Anne McTaggart John Pentland (deputy whip) Alex Rowley Elaine Smith David Stewart

MP Group

Shadow cabinet	Douglas Alexander Margaret Curran

Shadow ministers	Gordon Banks Russell Brown Thomas Docherty Gemma Doyle Tom Greatrex Cathy Jamieson Gregg McClymont Ian Murray Anas Sarwar

Backbenchers	Willie Bain Anne Begg Gordon Brown Katy Clark Tom Clarke Michael Connarty Alistair Darling Ian Davidson Brian Donohoe Frank Doran Sheila Gilmore David Hamilton Tom Harris Jimmy Hood Mark Lazarowicz Michael McCann James McGovern Anne McGuire Ann McKechin Iain McKenzie Graeme Morrice Jim Murphy Pamela Nash Fiona O'Donnell Sandra Osborne John Robertson Frank Roy Lindsay Roy James Sheridan

MEP Group

Organisation

Scottish Executive Committee
Scottish Labour Conference
Scottish Policy Forum
Scottish Trade Union Labour Party Committee
Scottish Labour Students
Scottish Young Labour
Campaign for Socialism Group
Review of the Labour Party in Scotland
History

In Government

First
Second

Members of the Scottish Parliament in the Central Scotland region

Elected in the 2011 election

Constituency MSPs	Alex Neil (SNP, Airdrie and Shotts) Elaine Smith (Lab, Coatbridge and Chryston) Jamie Hepburn (SNP, Cumbernauld and Kilsyth) Linda Fabiani (SNP, East Kilbride) Angus MacDonald (SNP, Falkirk East) Michael Matheson (SNP, Falkirk West) Christina McKelvie (SNP, Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse) John Pentland (Lab, Motherwell and Wishaw) Michael McMahon (Lab, Uddingston and Bellshill)

Additional members	Clare Adamson (SNP) Richard Lyle (SNP) Mark Griffin (Lab) Margaret Mitchell (Con) Siobhan McMahon (Lab) Margaret McCulloch (Lab) John Wilson (SNP)

Labour (6 seats), SNP (9 seats), Conservative (1 seat)