Education and Skills Committee [Session 5]
Committee covers:
- early years and childcare
- school education and support for learning
- colleges and universities
- apprenticeships and other routes to employment
- child protection and wellbeing
- care experienced children, foster care and kinship care
All the committee’s work is available on our archive website
Members
Members of the Education and Skills Committee
Former full and substitute members of the committee.
Clare Adamson
Convener
Party: Scottish National Party
MSP for: Motherwell and Wishaw (Constituency)
James Dornan
Convener
Party: Scottish National Party
MSP for: Glasgow Cathcart (Constituency)
Daniel Johnson
Deputy Convener
Party: Scottish Labour
MSP for: Edinburgh Southern (Constituency)
Johann Lamont
Deputy Convener
Party: Scottish Labour
MSP for: Glasgow (Region)
George Adam
Member
Party: Scottish National Party
MSP for: Paisley (Constituency)
Alasdair Allan
Member
Party: Scottish National Party
MSP for: Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Constituency)
Colin Beattie
Member
Party: Scottish National Party
MSP for: Midlothian North and Musselburgh (Constituency)
Mary Fee
Member
Party: Scottish Labour
MSP for: West Scotland (Region)
Kenneth Gibson
Member
Party: Scottish National Party
MSP for: Cunninghame North (Constituency)
Jenny Gilruth
Member
Party: Scottish National Party
MSP for: Mid Fife and Glenrothes (Constituency)
Iain Gray
Member
Party: Scottish Labour
MSP for: East Lothian (Constituency)
Jamie Greene
Member
Party: Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
MSP for: West Scotland (Region)
Ross Greer
Member
Party: Scottish Green Party
MSP for: West Scotland (Region)
Jamie Halcro Johnston
Member
Party: Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
MSP for: Highlands and Islands (Region)
Alison Harris
Member
Party: Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
MSP for: Central Scotland (Region)
Clare Haughey
Member
Party: Scottish National Party
MSP for: Rutherglen (Constituency)
Richard Lochhead
Member
Party: Scottish National Party
MSP for: Moray (Constituency)
Gordon MacDonald
Member
Party: Scottish National Party
MSP for: Edinburgh Pentlands (Constituency)
Fulton MacGregor
Member
Party: Scottish National Party
MSP for: Coatbridge and Chryston (Constituency)
Rona Mackay
Member
Party: Scottish National Party
MSP for: Strathkelvin and Bearsden (Constituency)
Ruth Maguire
Member
Party: Scottish National Party
MSP for: Cunninghame South (Constituency)
Gillian Martin
Member
Party: Scottish National Party
MSP for: Aberdeenshire East (Constituency)
Oliver Mundell
Member
Party: Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
MSP for: Dumfriesshire (Constituency)
Alex Neil
Member
Party: Scottish National Party
MSP for: Airdrie and Shotts (Constituency)
Gail Ross
Member
Party: Scottish National Party
MSP for: Caithness, Sutherland and Ross (Constituency)
Tavish Scott
Member
Party: Scottish Liberal Democrats
MSP for: Shetland Islands (Constituency)
Liz Smith
Member
Party: Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
MSP for: Mid Scotland and Fife (Region)
Ross Thomson
Member
Party: Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
MSP for: North East Scotland (Region)
Beatrice Wishart
Member
Party: Scottish Liberal Democrats
MSP for: Shetland Islands (Constituency)
Substitute Members
Michelle Ballantyne
Substitute Member
Party: Reform UK
MSP for: South Scotland (Region)
Miles Briggs
Substitute Member
Party: Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
MSP for: Lothian (Region)
Kezia Dugdale
Substitute Member
Party: Scottish Labour
MSP for: Lothian (Region)
Neil Findlay
Substitute Member
Party: Scottish Labour
MSP for: Lothian (Region)
Alison Johnstone
Substitute Member
Party: No Party Affiliation
MSP for: Lothian (Region)
Liam McArthur
Substitute Member
Party: Scottish Liberal Democrats
MSP for: Orkney Islands (Constituency)
Gil Paterson
Substitute Member
Party: Scottish National Party
MSP for: Clydebank and Milngavie (Constituency)