NICOLA Sturgeon has completed her reshuffle with the announcement of her junior ministerial team.
Ten Cabinet Secretaries, including the First Minister, will be supported by 15 junior ministers.
New additions to the team are new MSP (and former special adviser) Mairi McAllan who takes on the environment role, and former whips George Adam and Tom Arthur in at parliamentary business manager and public finance respectively.
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Several junior ministers in the previous government have been appointed to different roles.
They include Clare Haughey who goes from mental health to children and young people, replaced by former housing minister Kevin Stewart, Richard Lochhead to a role of "just transition and fair work", Graeme Dey to transport and Maree Todd to public health.
Minister for Drugs Policy Angela Constance (below), will report directly to the First Minister after she made clear that tackling deaths through drugs misuse is a key priority.
Adam will work with Deputy First Minister and Covid Recovery Secretary John Swinney.
Lochhead will support Finance Secretary Kate Forbes and will also work alongside Net Zero Secretary Michael Matheson.
Minister for Business, Trade, Tourism and Enterprise, Ivan McKee will also work in this team as will Minister for Public Finance, Planning and Community Wealth, Tom Arthur, who joins government for the first time.
Todd, Minister for Public Health, and Kevin Stewart, Minister for Mental Wellbeing and Social Care, will report to Health and Social Care Secretary, Humza Yousaf.
The other members of the ministerial team are:
Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills - Shirley-Anne Somerville
Minister for Children and Young People - Clare Haughey
Minister for Higher Education and Further Education, Youth Employment and Training - Jamie Hepburn
Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero, Energy and Transport - Michael Matheson
Minister for Environment, Biodiversity and Land Reform (who will also work alongside the Rural Affairs Secretary) - Mairi McAllan
Minister for Transport - Graeme Dey
Cabinet Secretary for Justice - Keith Brown
Minister for Community Safety - Ash Denham
Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Housing and Local Government - Shona Robison
Minister for Equalities and Older People - Christina McKelvie
Minister for Social Security and Local Government - Ben McPherson
Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Islands - Mairi Gougeon
Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution, External Affairs and Culture - Angus Robertson
Minister for Culture, Europe and International Development - Jenny Gilruth
All of the new ministers will have to be approved tomorrow in a vote in parliament and later by the Queen.
The SNP won the election on May 6, taking 64 seats, just one short of an overall majority.
During her victory speech, the First Minister declared that a second independence referendum was the "will of the country".
She later told the Prime Minister it was a case of "when not if" when it came to a new referendum.
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