Most contracts are awarded by the Department for Transport ( DfT ), with the exception of Merseyrail, where the franchise is awarded by Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive, and ScotRail, where the DfT awards on the advice of the Scottish Government.

After devolution, in 1999 the new Scottish Executive set up an Education Department and an Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning Department.

In 1962, the British Transport Commission was wound up, and control passed to the British Waterways Board ; subsequently Scottish Canals took control.

* Scottish Parliament Constituency: Banffshire and Buchan Coast — Stewart Stevenson, SNP, ( 2001 –) Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change ( 2007-2010 )

The Duchess of Gloucester served as Colonel-in-Chief or deputy Colonel-in-Chief of a dozen regiments in the British Army, including the King's Own Scottish Borderers, the Northamptonshire Regiment, the 2nd East Anglian Regiment ( Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire ), the Royal Anglian Regiment, the Royal Hussars, and the Royal Irish Rangers ( 27th Inniskilling ); also, the Royal Corps of Transport.

Category: Transport in the Scottish Borders

The period following that election saw sustained growth for the SSP, including a boost to membership when the Socialist Workers Party in Scotland joined the SSP, and the Scottish section of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers affiliated to the party.

Railroad Tycoon was written by game designer Sid Meier and published by MicroProse and though it shares the " Tycoon " suffix, it is not related to other Microprose games such as RollerCoaster Tycoon and Transport Tycoon, which were developed by Scottish programmer Chris Sawyer.

Political responsibility for education at all levels is vested in the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish Executive Education and Enterprise, Transport & Lifelong Learning Departments.

In addition, it ran London suburban services to ( London, Midland and Scottish Railway ) and ( Metropolitan Railway, later London Transport ).

* The Scottish Transport Regiment

Category: Transport in the Scottish Borders

In 2007 it was decided by Transport Scotland and the Scottish Government that a new motorway junction should be built at the Heartlands Development Site in Whitburn, where top of the range golf courses and state of the art hotels and houses are to be built.

This organisation is part of Transport Scotland which is in itself part of the Scottish government.

Category: Transport in the Scottish Borders

These included the privatisation of the Scottish electricity industry and the Scottish Transport Group.

Political responsibility for education at all levels is vested in the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish Education and Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning Departments.

* Lance Corporal DG Dickson MC Royal Logistic Corps ( The Scottish Transport Regiment ) Volunteers, 23 March 2005.

* The Scottish Transport Regiment

After the SNP's victory at the 2007 Scottish Parliament Election, Stevenson was appointed Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change.

In March 2009 Stevenson apologised for the use of an " intemperate word " in Parliament when he said the word " bollocks " in an off-mic remark in response to sedentary remarks by Liberal Democrat MSP Mike Rumbles on the relationship between Scottish ministers and officials at Transport Scotland.

* 1937 – Donald Dewar, Scottish politician, First Minister of Scotland ( d. 2000 )

He led the Scottish Labour Party into the first ever Scottish parliamentary election in 1999, and was elected both as an MSP and as First Minister of Scotland at the head of a Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition.

When elections were held to the newly created Scottish Parliament in 1999, as leader of the Scottish Labour Party and through a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, Dewar became the inaugural holder of the First Minister of Scotland post.

In 2000, Dewar died of a brain hemorrhage and was succeeded as First Minister of Scotland and Scottish Labour leader by Henry McLeish.

Dewar also threatened to sack any minister or aide who briefed the media against another member of the Scottish Executive, following public rows between Jack McConnell and the Minister of Health and Community Care, Susan Deacon over the budget allocated to health.

Edinburgh is the home town of the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair, who was born in the city and attended Fettes College ; Robin Harper the co-convener of the Scottish Green Party ; and John Witherspoon, the only clergyman to sign the United States Declaration of Independence, and later president of Princeton University.

Scottish educated Andrew Bonar Law led a Conservative government from 1922 to 1923 and another Scot, Ramsey MacDonald, would be the Labour Party's first Prime Minister in 1924 and again from 1929-35.

In World War II, Prime Minister Winston Churchill appointed Labour politician Tom Johnston as Secretary of State for Scotland in February 1941 ; he controlled Scottish affairs until the war ended.

On the retirement of a Prime Minister who is Scottish, it is likely that the primarily Scottish honour of the Order of the Thistle will be used instead of the Order of the Garter, which is generally regarded as an English honour.

In the 2007 Scottish Parliamentary election, the SNP became the largest political party in the Scottish Parliament for the first time, governing as a minority administration, with party leader Alex Salmond as First Minister of Scotland.

In the 2007 Scottish Parliamentary election the SNP emerged as the largest party with 47 seats, narrowly ousting the Scottish Labour Party with 46 seats and Alex Salmond became Scottish First Minister.

The Scottish Parliament nominates a Member to be appointed as First Minister by the Queen.

The First Minister, the Ministers ( but not junior ministers ), the Lord Advocate and Solicitor General are the Members of the ' Scottish Executive ', as set out in the Scotland Act 1998.

Indeed, the former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who is an MP for a Scottish constituency, introduced some laws that only affect England and not his own constituency.

The monument was dedicated by the Scottish Parliament's Minister for Europe Linda Fabiani during the late summer of 2007, the 90th anniversary of the battle.

Labour had already lost its majority in the House of Commons when he became Prime Minister and lost further seats at by-elections and through defections, forcing Callaghan to deal with minor parties such as the Liberal Party especially in the Lib-Lab pact from 1977 to 1978, the Ulster Unionists, Scottish National Party and even Independents.

Her Majesty's Home Civil Service, also known as Her Majesty's Civil Service or the Home Civil Service, is the permanent bureaucracy or secretariat of Crown employees that supports Her Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom, which is composed of a cabinet of ministers chosen by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, as well as three devolved administrations: the Welsh Assembly Government, the Scottish Executive and the Northern Ireland Executive.

His father was a Scottish MP ; his mother, a member of the Cecil family descended from Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, was the daughter of the 2nd Marquess of Salisbury and a sister to the 3rd Marquess, the future Prime Minister.

On 11 May 2007, the Greens signed an agreement with the Scottish National Party, which meant that the Greens voted for Alex Salmond as First Minister and supported his initial Ministerial appointments.

* 1954 – Iain Banks, Scottish author

* 1984 – Iain Turner, Scottish footballer

* 1956 – Iain Milne, Scottish rugby player

* 1961 – Iain Glen, Scottish actor

One notable example of a technological and libertarian socialist utopia is Scottish author Iain Banks ' Culture.

The Wasp Factory was the first novel by Scottish writer Iain Banks.

Espedair Street is a novel by Scottish writer Iain Banks, published in 1987.

The Crow Road is a novel by the Scottish writer Iain Banks, published in 1992.

Consider Phlebas, first published in 1987, is a space opera novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks.

The Culture is a fictional interstellar anarchist, and utopian society created by the Scottish writer Iain M. Banks which features in a number of science fiction novels and works of short fiction by him, collectively called the Culture series.

Inversions is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1998.

Whit, or, Isis amongst the unsaved is a novel by the Scottish writer Iain Banks, published in 1995.

The Player of Games is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1988.

Excession, first published in 1996, is Scottish writer Iain M. Banks's fourth science fiction novel to feature the Culture.

Look to Windward is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 2000.

Feersum Endjinn is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1994.

Against a Dark Background is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1993.

The film Mountains of the Moon ( 1990 ) ( starring Scottish actor Iain Glen as Speke ) related the story of the Burton-Speke controversy, portrayed as having been unjustifiably incited by Speke's publisher to stimulate book sales.

Dead Air is a novel by the Scottish writer Iain Banks, published in 2002.

* Iain Lom, a Scottish Gaelic poet

* Iain Banks ( born 1954 ), Scottish writer

The Bridge is a novel by Scottish author Iain Banks.

Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray, former First Minister Jack McConnell, and former Scottish Office minister Brian Wilson criticised the decision, while Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, former Labour MP Tam Dalyell and former British ambassador to Libya Richard Dalton publicly supported it.