James Alexander Stewart Stevenson is a Scottish politician who served as Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change from 2007 to 2010 and Minister for Environment and Climate Change from 2011 to 2012.
16 Facts About Stewart Stevenson
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Stewart Stevenson's father James Stevenson was a doctor and his mother Helen MacGregor was a teacher.
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Stewart Stevenson was educated at Bell Baxter High School then studied mathematics at the University of Aberdeen.
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Stewart Stevenson worked in information technology with the Bank of Scotland for 30 years, retiring in 1999 as Director of Technology Innovation.
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Stewart Stevenson stood as an SNP candidate in the Linlithgow constituency in the 1999 Scottish General election but was unsuccessful.
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In January 2001 Stevenson was adopted as the candidate for Banff and Buchan, ahead of the by-election on 7 June 2001 that was triggered by Alex Salmond's resignation from the seat to concentrate on Westminster politics.
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Stewart Stevenson was elected with a majority of 8,500 votes over the Conservative candidate.
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Stewart Stevenson made his maiden speech on the European Union's Common Fisheries Policy on 14 June 2001.
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Stewart Stevenson was re-elected to the constituency in the 2003 elections.
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Stewart Stevenson was Convenor of the SNP Group in the Scottish Parliament and Deputy Convenor of the Parliament's Justice 1 Committee.
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Stewart Stevenson reached his 500th speech on the Tribunals Bill, on 7 November 2013.
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Stewart Stevenson commenced a speech on International Suicide Prevention Week at 17:21 on Wednesday, 7 September 2004 and completed it at 17:12 on Thursday, 8 September 2004 nearly 24 hours later.
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Stewart Stevenson brought forward the SNP's first Legislative Consent Motion, previously known as Sewel Motions, on the subject of the UK Climate Change Bill.
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Stewart Stevenson was the first SNP Minister to lose a vote in Parliament on the subject of the Edinburgh Trams project.
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Under the Second Salmond government Stewart Stevenson returned to a ministerial position, appointed as Minister for Environment and Climate Change on 20 May 2011.
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Stewart Stevenson was elected National Secretary of the SNP on 30 November 2020 and served for a year.