Submitted by Jake Ian Neill on Monday 8th December 2025
Published on Tuesday 20th January 2026
Current status: Open
Open until: Monday 20th July 2026
Current Signatures: 40
(count is updated approximately hourly)
Relevant Departments
Tagged with
Electing ~ Elections ~ Establishment ~ First Minister ~ Holyrood ~ Ministers ~ Officers ~ Positions ~ Scotland ~ Scottish government ~ Scottish governments ~ Scraps ~ Secretary ~ Secretary of State ~ The People of Scotland ~ The Scotland ~ The Scottish ~ The Scottish Government ~ The Secretary of State
Scrap the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Scotland Office
This is to ask the UK Government to scrap the Secretary of State for Scotland position as the people of Scotland have a democratically elected First Minister and Government in Scotland and we therefore urge the government to scrap the position and the SO as we feel both are redundant.
Since 1999 following the establishment of the Scottish Government, we think the need to have a Secretary of State for Scotland is essentially non existent and that the position is now essentially used to attack the devolved government which was never the idea. We feel the SOS has used his position to bypass Holyrood and to criticise devolved public services. Why have Holyrood if we have this?
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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