Minister for Youth and Women's Employment

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The Minister for Youth and Women's Employment is a member of the Scottish Government. The Minister reports to the Cabinet Secretary for Fair Work, Skills and Training, who has overall responsibility for the portfolio, and is a member of cabinet. As a Junior Minister the post holder is not a member of the Scottish Government Cabinet.

Responsibilities include women’s employment and youth employment

History

The post of Minister for Youth and Women's Employment within the Scottish Government was recreated on 21 November 2014, but had existed in the very recent past (until April 2014) under a different title.

The Junior Ministerial post of Minister for Youth Employment was created on 7 December 2011 following the recommendations of the Smith Group.^[1] From April 2014, this was promoted to a Cabinet Secretary position, as Cabinet Secretary for Training, Youth and Women's Employment. The November 2014 Cabinet reshuffle saw the Cabinet Secretary position changed to Cabinet Secretary for Fair Work, Skills and Training.

List of office holders

The current Minister for Youth and Women's Employment is Annabelle Ewing.^[2]

Name		Portrait	Entered Office	Left Office	Party	First Minister
	Annabelle Ewing		21 November 2014	Incumbent	Scottish National Party	Nicola Sturgeon

References

See also

• Scottish Parliament
• Scottish Government

External links

• Minister for Youth & Women's Employment

Junior Ministers of the Scottish Government Alasdair Allan (Minister for Learning, Science and Scotland's Languages) Derek Mackay (Minister for Transport and Islands) Margaret Burgess (Minister for Housing and Welfare) Aileen Campbell (Minister for Children and Young People) Paul Wheelhouse (Minister for Community Safety and Legal Affairs) Fergus Ewing (Minister for Business, Energy and Tourism) Joe FitzPatrick (Minister for Parliamentary Business) Marco Biagi (Minister for Local Government and Community Empowerment) Maureen Watt (Minister for Public Health) Jamie Hepburn (Minister for Sport, Health Improvement and Mental Health) Annabelle Ewing (Minister for Youth and Women's Employment) Aileen McLeod (Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform) Humza Yousaf (Minister for Europe and International Development)