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Scotland Office

The Scotland Office, headed up by the Secretary of State for Scotland, is part of the Ministry of Justice, based in Whitehall, London. The Office's key roles are to: represent Scotland's interests at Westminster; and act as guardian to the Devolution Settlement.

Contact information

• Address: Dover House, 66 Whitehall, London SW1A 2AU
• Website: www.scotlandoffice.gov.uk [External website]
• Telephone: 020 7270 6741
• Fax: 020 7270 6815
• Email: scotlandoffice.ministers@scotland.gsi.gov.uk
• Generic Email format: firstname.lastname@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

Parliamentary Branch

• Telephone: 020 7270 6746
• Fax: 020 7270 6815
• Email: parlyclerk@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

Correspondence Section

• Telephone: 020 7270 6735
• Fax: 020 7270 6815
• Email: SOMinCorr@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

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Ministers

Secretary of State for Scotland: The Rt Hon Jim Murphy

Jim Murphy

Leads on:

• Asylum and Immigration
• Aviation
• Boundary Commission, Boundary Commission’s 1st review Broadcasting
• Calman Commission
• Carbon Capture &a; Storage, Carbon Emissions Reductions Target, All Department for Energy and Climate Change issues
• Commonwealth Games
• Consumer Affairs
• CSR settlement
• Electoral Legislation
• Fiscal position
• Foreign Affairs
• ID Cards
• Local Income Tax
• MoD in Scotland, Nuclear deterrent
• Oil Prices
• Poverty
• Renewables
• Scotch Whisky Legislation
• S185 Energy Act Scheme
• Transmission charging
• Welfare Reform Bill
• Workplace, Flexible Working, National Minimum Wage
• Voting Rights of Prisoners

Private Office to The Rt Hon Jim Murphy

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State: Ann McKechin

Ann McKechin

Leads on:

• Attendance Allowance, Free Personal Care
• Bio-industry and Bio-sciences
• Civil Contingencies and Emergency Powers
• Creative Industries
• Digital Switchover
• Electoral Fraud, Electoral Registration
• All Environment, Food, Rural Affairs issues
• Equality Bill
• 2009 European Elections
• Fatal Accident Enquiries and Deaths of Service Personnel Overseas
• Firearms
• Fisheries
• Freedom of Information
• Gaelic language
• Gould report
• Higher Education
• International Development
• JMC
• Libya
• Migration Advisory Committee
• Military Assistance to Police Forces
• Olyics
• Pandemic Flu
• Pleural Plaques
• Policing
• Post Office Network
• Postal Voting
• Scottish Banknotes
• Social Mobility White Paper
• Swords
• All Transport issues

Private Office to Ann McKechin

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Private Offices

Private Office to The Rt Hon Jim Murphy

• Telephone: 020 7270 6741
• Fax: 020 7270 6815
• Email: scotlandoffice.ministers@scotlandoffice.gsi.gov.uk

Private Office to Ann McKechin

• Telephone: 020 7270 6816
• Fax: 020 7270 6815
• Email: scotlandoffice.ministers@scotlandoffice.gsi.gov.uk

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