Tavish Scott

Tavish Scott
MSP for Shetland

Last update
22 June 2009

Welcome to this website

Welcome to my web site. The site is designed to illustrate my work undertaken in Parliament, on behalf of Shetland. It therefore has different sections relating to these tasks.

I hope to enlarge the site to cover for example, Parliamentary speeches and questions, articles I write for local and national publications and the weekly diary of events.

I would appreciate your ideas and thoughts on the web site. Please email or get in touch through the Contact Details page.

Tavish Scott

Born in 1966 in Inverness, Tavish Scott attended Anderson High School, Lerwick, Shetland and Napier University, Edinburgh, where he attained a BA (Hons) in Business Studies.

After graduating in 1989, Tavish Scott worked for Jim Wallace MP in the House of Commons. He became Scottish press officer for the Liberal Democrats in 1990, before returning to Shetland to run his family's farm.

From 1994 to 1999 Tavish Scott was a local councillor representing Lerwick Harbour and Bressay Ward on Shetland Islands Council. He was Vice-chairman of the Roads and Transport Committee and Chairman of Lerwick Harbour Trust.

Mr Scott was the Deputy Minister for Parliament from 1 November 2000 until his resignation on 9 March 2001.

He subsequently held the post of Deputy Minister for Finance, Public Services and Parliamentary Business from 21st May 2003 until 29th June 2005.

Mr Scott joined the Scottish Cabinet on the 29th June 2005 when he was appointed Minister for Transport, a post he held until May 2007.

From May 2007 until August 2008, Mr Scott was Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth, and also Convenor of the Scottish Parliament's Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee.