He has a special interest in autism and presented a private member's bill to Parliament dealing with the care of autistic children once they reached adulthood.

[7] On 9 December 2010, he abstained from voting on the Higher Tuition Fees Bill, which meant he had to resign his position as an aide to the Transport Secretary, Philip Hammond.

[8] During a Parliamentary debate on antisemitism in 2014, he stated that he had received several death threats because of his espousal of Judaism, including five in the last year.

[9] From May 2018 to June 2019, Scott was Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, James Brokenshire.

[11] In 2018, Scott said that he would not be standing again because "I wouldn't put my family through what we went through in the last three of those four elections", referring to what investigative journalist John Ware called "an antisemitic campaign aimed at ousting him from Parliament" linked to Mend (Muslim Engagement and Development).