Paul McLennan | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MSP |
Office: | Minister for Housing |
Term Start: | 29 March 2023 |
Firstminister: | Humza Yousaf John Swinney |
Predecessor: | Margaret Burgess |
Office1: | Member of the Scottish Parliament for East Lothian |
Termstart1: | 7 May 2021 |
Predecessor1: | Iain Gray |
Majority1: | 1,179 (2.5%) |
Birth Place: | Dunbar, Scotland |
Nationality: | Scottish |
Party: | Scottish National Party |
Spouse: | Sharron McLennan |
Children: | 2 |
Paul Stewart McLennan is a Scottish politician serving as Minister for Housing since 2023.[1] A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), he has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for East Lothian since 2021.[2]
He has served as a local councillor for the Dunbar and East Linton multi-member ward of East Lothian Council since 2007[3] having previously been an unsuccessful candidate in earlier elections to single-member wards,[4] and was both the SNP group leader and the council leader from 2007 to 2012. He has been a board member of NHS Lothian, the regional offices of Scottish Enterprise and the Commission on School Reform.[3]
McLennan is East Lothian's first SNP MSP, with the constituency having been previously held exclusively by Scottish Labour for 22 years.[5]
McLennan is married to his wife Sharron, with whom he has two children, Scott and Kirsty. He is a lifelong resident of Dunbar.[6]