Paul Stewart McLennan is a Scottish politician serving as Minister for Housing since 2023.

[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.