The Minister for Parliamentary Business is a member the Scottish Executive whose job it is to steer government business through the Scottish Parliament. The role combines the duties of Chief Whip and Leader of the House in other national legislatures. The current (since 2003) Minister is Margaret Curran MSP of the Scottish Labour Party, her deputy is George Lyon MSP of the Scottish Liberal Democrats. The Executives logo, shown with English and Scottish Gaelic caption The term Scottish Executive is used in two different, but closely-related senses: to denote the executive arm of Scotlands national legislature (i. ... The Scottish Parliaments logo in English and Gaelic. ... The Chief Whip is a political office in some legislatures assigned to an elected member whose task is to administer the whipping system that ensures that members of the party attend and vote as the party leadership desires. ... The office of Leader of the House in the Government of Australia exists in order for the management of government business, involving the order in which Government issues are to be dealt with, which Government members will speak, tactical matters in reaction to impediments to such management; negotiates with the... States currently utilizing parliamentary systems are denoted in orange and red—the former being constitutional monarchies where authority is vested in a parliament, and the latter being parliamentary republics whose parliaments are effectively supreme over a separate head of state. ... Margaret Curran (b. ... This article is about the Scottish Labour Party founded in 1976. ... George Lyon (born 16 July 1956 in Rothesay) is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Argyll and Bute, and Deputy Minister for Finance, Public Service Reform and Parliamentary Business. ... The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a liberal political party in the United Kingdom. ...

See also

• Act of the Scottish Parliament
• Question Time
• Scottish Executive

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External links

• Minister of Parliamentary Business - Scottish Executive