Peter Peacock

Peter Peacock ( born May 27, 1952 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish politician and member of the Labour Party.

1982 Peacock was elected to the Regional Council of Highland and belonged to this for many years. For the first time Peacock joined the Scottish Parliament elections 1999 to national elections. Here he applied not to the direct mandate of a constituency, but one of the seven seats to be filled of choice Highlands and Islands. On the Regional Evaluation of the Labour Party, he took the first place and moved as a result of the election result as one of three candidates of the Labour Party for the Highlands and Islands in the newly created Scottish parliament. There he was appointed Deputy Minister of Education and held this post until October 2000. Subsequently, he held the post of Deputy Minister of Finance by the end of the legislative period.

In the parliamentary elections of 2003, Peacock applied for the direct mandate of the constituency of Moray, but received only the third highest number of votes. But as he was again placed on the regional election list for Highlands and Islands, he defended on the basis of the election result his parliamentary seat. In the newly formed Cabinet Peacock was appointed Minister of Education and followed so on Cathy Jamieson. Tavish Scott became the new Deputy Minister of Finance. In 2006, Peacock has resigned as minister for health reasons known. In the following parliamentary elections in 2007, he defended his parliamentary seat and retired at the end of the legislative period from the Parliament from.