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Stewart Stevenson - Minister for the Environment and Climate Change

Stewart Stevenson was elected an an SNP member to represent Banff & Buchan in 2001, a seat which he retained in the May 2011 election. This followed 30 years in technology with Bank of Scotland from which he retired in 1999 as Director of Technology Innovation.

After that he lectured in the Business School at Heriot-Watt University, mainly to post-graduate students. From 2007 to 2010 he was Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change in the first ever SNP Government and was responsible for abolishing Tay & Forth Tolls, Scotland's Climate Change Act and for most of the work on the Forth Replacement Crossing Act.

As a graduate of Aberdeen University with a modest degree in mathematics he retains an interest in numbers, draws upon his period in 1964 when he worked in a psychiatric hospital and is the most prolific speaker in the Scots Parliament to date having spoken in 406 debates. He was brought up in Cupar, Fife and now lives in rural Banffshire with his spouse.

He was elected Minister for the Environment and Climate Change in 2011.
 
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