Siobhian Brown | |
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Minister for Victims and Community Safety | |
Assumed office 29 March 2023 | |
First Minister | Humza Yousaf |
Preceded by | Elena Whitham |
Convener of the COVID-19 Recovery Committee | |
Assumed office 23 June 2021 | |
Deputy | Murdo Fraser |
Member of the Scottish Parliament for Ayr | |
Assumed office 7 May 2021 | |
Preceded by | John Scott |
Majority | 170 (0.4%) |
Personal details | |
Born | [1] [2] London,England [3] | 20 October 1972
Political party | Scottish National Party |
Siobhian Brown (born 20 October 1972) is a politician in Scotland,serving as Minister for Victims and Community Safety since 2023 [4] and a member of the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Ayr since 2021. [5] A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP),she was a councillor for the Ayr West ward of South Ayrshire Council. [6] [7]
Brown was born in London and raised in Australia,she was elected to the Scottish Parliament in the May 2021 election. Brown has served as Convener of the COVID-19 Recovery Committee since June 2021. [8]
In 2023 she was promoted to be a Junior Minister looking after Victims and Community Safety brief in a new government led by first minister Humza Yousef. On the same day a fellow Ayrshire MSP Elena Whitham took on the Scottish Government’s Drugs and Alcohol Policy brief. [9]
Brown joined the Scottish National Party the day after the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. She was elected to South Ayrshire Council for the Ayr West ward in the 2017 Scottish local elections. [6]
In November 2020,she was selected as the SNP's candidate for the Ayr constituency in the 2021 Scottish Parliament election. [10] In May 2021,she was elected as a member of the Scottish Parliament for Ayr with a majority of 170 votes,defeating the incumbent John Scott who had been the Scottish Conservatives' longest serving MSP. [11]
In 2023,she was appointed to the Yousaf government as Minister for Victims and Community Safety. [12]
Born in London to Scottish parents,Brown emigrated to Sydney,Australia when she was three years old. [3] After working in Spain,Italy,London and Scotland, [13] she moved to Ayrshire—where her parents are from—in 1999. [14] Brown has four children (including a step-daughter), [3] with her youngest being born when she was 44 years old. [6] In 2016 she founded the South Ayrshire Babybank and remains a volunteer for the organisation. [15]
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