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Written Question
Advocate General for Scotland: Public Appointments
Wednesday 21st October 2020

Asked by: Baroness Clark of Calton (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the resignation of the Advocate General for Scotland on 16 September, what progress they have made in appointing a successor; and in the absence of any such successor, who is responsible for (1) the Advocate General for Scotland's statutory duties, and (2) litigation in the courts in Scotland where the Advocate General would be named.

Answered by Lord True - Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal

Keith Stewart QC was appointed as the new Advocate General for Scotland on 15 October 2020.