MPs to hear from former First Ministers of Scotland on intergovernmental relationsÂ
Two former First Ministers and a former Lord Advocate will appear in front of the Westminster-based Scottish Affairs Committee on Tuesday 7 May as part of the inquiry into intergovernmental relations.
Meeting details
The session will be split into three panels. First, MPs will question Henry McLeish about his time as First Minister between 2000 and 2001. This will then be followed by a short session with Lady Elish Angiolini, who occupied the role of Lord Advocate between 2006 and 2011.
Finally, the Committee will hear from Lord Jack McConnell. Lord McConnell served as First Minister from 2001 until 2007.
Hearing from these witnesses will give MPs the opportunity to gather evidence on how those occupying leading positions in the first Scottish Governments interpreted relations between Westminster and Holyrood from 2000 until 2011.
Mr McLeish and Lord McConnell both led the Scottish Government in the years shortly after it was first formed. The Committee is likely to seek to understand what communication between the two Governments was like at that time and how the relationship was affected by both Governments being politically aligned.
The inquiry, named Intergovernmental Relations: 25 Years since the Scotland Act, has recently examined the views and experiences of those working within the UK Government – with former Scotland Secretaries David Mundell MP and Alistair Carmichael MP giving evidence to the Committee in April.
Other prominent politicians who have given evidence to this inquiry include Lord David Cameron, Alex Salmond and Angus Robertson MSP.