Siobhian Brown
Siobhian Brown is a politician in Scotland, serving as Minister for Victims and Community Safety since 2023 and a Member of the Scottish Parliament for Ayr since 2021. A member of the Scottish National Party, she was a councillor for the Ayr West ward of South Ayrshire Council.
Political career
Brown joined the Scottish National Party the day after the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. She was a councillor on South Ayrshire Council for the Ayr West ward from 2017 until her resignation in 2022.Scottish Parliament
In November 2020, she was selected as the SNP's candidate for the Ayr constituency in the 2021 Scottish Parliament election. In May 2021, she was elected as a member of the Scottish Parliament for Ayr with a majority of 170 votes, defeating the incumbent John Scott who had been the Scottish Conservatives' longest serving MSP.Brown was as a Convener of the COVID-19 Recovery Committee June 2021 until 2023.
In 2023 Brown was appointed as Minister for Victims and Community Safety by Humza Yousaf. She later recounted that she was "extremely surprised" by Yousaf's decision to appoint her minister, as she stood by Kate Forbes, who was criticised for her disavowal of the Gender Recognition Reform Bill on religious grounds.