Editing Shona Robison (section)

{{short description|Scottish politician (born 1966)}}
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{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix    = 
| name                = Shona Robison
| honorific-suffix    = [[Member of the Scottish Parliament|MSP]]
| image               = Shona Robison - 53727584039 (cropped).jpg
| caption             = Official portrait, 2024
| office              = [[Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government]]{{efn|As Cabinet Secretary for Finance from 29 March 2023 to 8 May 2024|name=Finance}}
| firstminister       = [[Humza Yousaf]]<br>[[John Swinney]]
| term_start          = 29 March 2023
| predecessor         = [[Kate Forbes]]
| office1             = [[Deputy First Minister of Scotland]]
| firstminister1      = [[Humza Yousaf]]
| term_start1         = 29 March 2023
| term_end1           = 8 May 2024
| predecessor1        = [[John Swinney]]
| successor1          = [[Kate Forbes]]
{{Collapsed infobox section begin|Ministerial offices<br />{{nobold|2007{{nbnd}}2023}}
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| office3             = [[Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Housing and Local Government]]{{efn|Cabinet Secretary for Commonwealth Games, Sport, Equalities and Pensioners' Rights in 2014.}}
| firstminister3      = [[Nicola Sturgeon]]
| term_start3         = 20 May 2021
| term_end3           = 28 March 2023
| predecessor3        = [[Shirley-Anne Somerville]] (Social Security)<br />[[Aileen Campbell]] (Communities and Local Government)
| successor3          = Shirley-Anne Somerville
| firstminister4      = [[Alex Salmond]]
| term_start4         = 22 April 2014
| term_end4           = 21 November 2014
| predecessor4        = ''Office established''
| successor4          = [[Alex Neil (politician)|Alex Neil]]
| office5             = [[Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport]]
| firstminister5      = Nicola Sturgeon
| term_start5         = 21 November 2014
| term_end5           = 26 June 2018
| predecessor5        = Alex Neil
| successor5          = [[Jeane Freeman]]
| office6            =  [[Minister for Commonwealth Games and Sport]]
| firstminister6      = Alex Salmond
| term_start6         = 19 May 2011
| term_end6           = 22 April 2014
| predecessor6        = [[Second Salmond government|''Office created'']]
| successor6          = ''Office abolished''
| office7             = [[Minister for Public Health and Sport]]
| firstminister7      = Alex Salmond
| term_start7         = 17 May 2007
| term_end7           = 19 May 2011
| predecessor7        = [[Lewis Macdonald]]
| successor7          = [[Michael Matheson (politician)|Michael Matheson]]
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{{Collapsed infobox section begin|Parliamentary offices<br />{{nobold|1999{{nbnd}}present}}
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| office3 = [[Member of the Scottish Parliament]]<br />for [[Dundee City East (Scottish Parliament constituency)|Dundee City East]]<br />{{nobold|[[Dundee East (Scottish Parliament constituency)|Dundee East]] (2003–2011)}}
| majority3 = 13,337 (41.1%)
| term_start3 = 1 May 2003
| term_end3 = 
| predecessor3 = [[John McAllion]]
| successor3 = 
| office4 = Member of the Scottish Parliament<br />for [[North East Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region)|North East Scotland]]<br />{{nobold|(1 of 7 Regional MSPs)}}
| term_start4 = 6 May 1999
| term_end4 = 1 May 2003
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}}
| birth_name          = Shona McRory Robison
| birth_date          = {{Birth date and age|1966|05|26|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Redcar]], [[North Riding of Yorkshire]], England
| birthname           = 
| party               = [[Scottish National Party]]
| spouse              = {{marriage|[[Stewart Hosie]]|1997|2017|reason=divorce}}<ref>Clegg, David (17 May 2019). "SNP infighting more like Game of Thrones plot than conduct of political party". ''dailyrecord''. Retrieved 2 March 2020.</ref>
| children            = 1
| residence           = 
| alma_mater          = {{ubl|[[University of Glasgow]]|[[Jordanhill College]]}}
| website             = {{URL|http://shona.robison.scot}}
}}
'''Shona McRory Robison''' (born 26 May 1966) is a Scottish politician who has served as [[Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government]] since 2023.{{Efn||name=Finance}} A member of the [[Scottish National Party]] (SNP), she previously served as [[Deputy First Minister of Scotland]] from 2023 to 2024. Robison has been the [[Member of the Scottish Parliament]] (MSP) for [[Dundee City East (Scottish Parliament constituency)|Dundee City East]] since [[2003 Scottish Parliament election|2003]]{{efn|The constituency was known as [[Dundee East (Scottish Parliament constituency)|Dundee East]] until 2011, when it was renamed and redrawn as part of the First Periodical Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bcomm-scotland.gov.uk/1st_holyrood/1st_holyrood.htm |title=''First Periodical Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries'', Boundary Commission for Scotland website, accessed 20 December 2008 |access-date=15 February 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080217060718/http://www.bcomm-scotland.gov.uk/1st_holyrood/1st_holyrood.htm |archive-date=17 February 2008 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>}} and was an [[Additional member system|additional member]] for the [[North East Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region)|North East Scotland]] region from [[1999 Scottish Parliament election|1999]] to [[2003 Scottish Parliament election|2003]].

Robison served as [[Minister for Public Health and Sport]] from 2007 to 2011. She then oversaw the [[Scottish Government]]'s preparations for the [[2014 Commonwealth Games]] as [[Minister for Commonwealth Games and Sport]] from 2011 to April 2014, when she was promoted to the [[Scottish Cabinet]] by [[Alex Salmond]] as [[Cabinet Secretary for Commonwealth Games, Sport, Equalities and Pensioners' Rights]].  When [[Nicola Sturgeon]] succeeded Salmond as First Minister in November 2014, she appointed Robison the [[Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport]].

In 2018, she resigned from government during a cabinet reshuffle after being widely criticised for her poorly received tenure as Health Secretary.<ref name="auto">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-44612923|title=Shona Robison quits as Nicola Sturgeon reshuffles cabinet|work=BBC News|date=26 June 2018|access-date=20 April 2021|archive-date=20 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420220115/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-44612923|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/tom-peterkin-shona-robison-lame-duck-health-secretary-295967|title=Tom Peterkin: Shona Robison is a lame duck Health Secretary &#124; The Scotsman}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thenational.scot/news/16315851.shona-robisons-tricky-time-health-secretary-dignified-end/|title=A dignified end to Robison's tricky time as Health Secretary|website=The National}}</ref> She returned to the backbenches, where she served on the justice and health committees. In 2021, Robison returned to Sturgeon's government as the [[Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Housing and Local Government]]. During her tenure in the position, she oversaw the government's efforts to pass the controversial [[Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill]]. 

Following Sturgeon's resignation as first minister in 2023, Robison was appointed Deputy First Minister and Finance Secretary by [[Humza Yousaf]] in his new [[First Yousaf government|government]]. After [[2024 Scottish government crisis|Yousaf's resignation]] and the [[2024 Scottish National Party leadership election|subsequent appointment]] of [[John Swinney]] as First Minister in 2024, Robison resigned as Deputy First Minister but retained her finance portfolio in Cabinet, with additional responsibility for local government.