| Post: | Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland |
| Incumbent: | John Lamont |
| Incumbentsince: | 8 July 2024 |
| Appointer: | Leader of the Opposition |
| Inaugural: | Tom Fraser |
| Formation: | 26 October 1951 |
The shadow secretary of state for Scotland is a member of the UK Shadow Cabinet responsible for the scrutiny of the secretary of state for Scotland and his/her department, the Scotland Office. The incumbent holder of the office is John Lamont.
| Name | width=120 | Entered office | width=120 | Left office | width=80 | Political party | Shadow Cabinet | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom Fraser | 26 October 1951 | 7 December 1961 | Labour | Clement Attlee | |||||
| Hugh Gaitskell | |||||||||
| Harold Wilson | |||||||||
| Willie Ross | 7 December 1961 | 16 October 1964 | Labour | ||||||
| Michael Noble | 16 October 1964 | 23 January 1969 | Conservative | Alec Douglas-Home | |||||
| Edward Heath | |||||||||
| Gordon Campbell | 23 January 1969 | 20 July 1970 | Conservative | ||||||
| Willie Ross | 20 July 1970 | 4 March 1974 | Labour | Harold Wilson | |||||
| Alick Buchanan-Smith | 4 March 1974 | 9 December 1976 | Conservative | Edward Heath | |||||
| Margaret Thatcher | |||||||||
| Teddy Taylor | 9 December 1976 | 3 May 1979 | Conservative | ||||||
| Bruce Millan | 4 May 1979 | 31 October 1983 | Labour | James Callaghan | |||||
| Michael Foot | |||||||||
| Donald Dewar | 31 October 1983 | 18 July 1992 | Labour | Neil Kinnock | |||||
| Tom Clarke | 18 July 1992 | 21 October 1993 | Labour | John Smith | |||||
| George Robertson | 21 October 1993 | 2 May 1997 | Labour | ||||||
| Margaret Beckett | |||||||||
| Tony Blair | |||||||||
| Office not in use | 2 May 1997 | 14 September 2001 | Conservative | John Major | |||||
| William Hague | |||||||||
| Jacqui Lait | 14 September 2001 | 11 November 2003 | Conservative | Iain Duncan Smith | |||||
| Peter Duncan | 11 November 2003 | 6 May 2005 | Conservative | Michael Howard | |||||
| James Gray | 9 May 2005 | 12 May 2005 [1] | Conservative | ||||||
| Eleanor Laing | 19 May 2005 | 7 December 2005 | Conservative | ||||||
| David Mundell | 7 December 2005 | 11 May 2010 | Conservative | David Cameron | |||||
| Jim Murphy | 11 May 2010 | 8 October 2010 | Labour | Harriet Harman | |||||
| Ann McKechin | 8 October 2010 | 7 October 2011 | Labour | Ed Miliband | |||||
| Margaret Curran | 7 October 2011 | 11 May 2015 | Labour | ||||||
| Ian Murray | 11 May 2015 | 26 June 2016 | Labour | Harriet Harman | |||||
| Jeremy Corbyn | |||||||||
| Dave Anderson | 1 July 2016 | 14 June 2017 | Labour | ||||||
| Lesley Laird | 14 June 2017 | 13 December 2019 | Labour | ||||||
| Tony Lloyd | 19 December 2019 | 6 April 2020 | Labour | ||||||
| Ian Murray | 6 April 2020 | 5 July 2024 | Labour | Keir Starmer | |||||
| John Lamont | 8 July 2024 | Incumbent | Conservative | Rishi Sunak | |||||