Shona Robison
Shona Robison ( born May 26, 1966 in Redcar, England) is a Scottish politician and member of the Scottish National Party ( SNP).
Life
Robison attended the Alva Academy and then studied social sciences at the University of Glasgow. Then moved to the Jordan Hill College and worked as a community worker in Glasgow in the sequence. Robison is married to the House of Deputies Stewart Hosie, the mother of a daughter and lives in Dundee.
Political career
For the first time Robison went to to national elections in the 1997 General Election. However, in her constituency Dundee East it was only the second highest number of votes behind the Labour candidate John McAllion and thus failed to reach the British House of Commons. In the first Scottish Parliament elections in 1999 Robison ran again in the constituency Dundee East, but lost again McAllion. On the Regional Evaluation of the SNP for choosing North East Scotland she took fifth place. As listed before her SNP politician Alex Salmond and Andrew Welsh won direct mandates, she received one of four mandates list of SNP in the constituency and moved into the newly created Scottish Parliament. As of September 2000, she was provided until the end of the legislature in the shadow cabinet of the SNP as Deputy Secretary of State for Health.
In the following 2003 parliamentary elections it won the direct mandate of Dundee East by a margin of only 90 votes and defended the mandate in the parliamentary elections of 2007. Shadow cabinet in the SNP from May 2003 Robison was Secretary of State for Health. After the election victory of the SNP in 2007 she was appointed as a consequence, Secretary of State for Health. As part of the constituency reform of 2011, the Dundee East constituency was abolished and largely replaced by the newly created constituency Dundee City East, ran for Robison in the parliamentary elections of 2011. She received 64.2 % of the vote and won so much the direct mandate of the new constituency. In the newly formed Cabinet, she was appointed Secretary of State for Commonwealth Games and Sport.