[1] In line with the secretaryship, a permanent under-secretaryship was created, to be occupied by a civil servant.
[3] The following were Permanent Under-Secretaries (of State) for Scotland:[4] The Scottish Office was unusual in that it was federal in arrangement; the Secretary of State oversaw several separate Scottish departments via the Scottish Office; those departments were headed by a Secretary who was responsible directly to the Secretary of State, but would meet with the Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Scottish Office regularly.
[9] In 1995, it was again renamed to the Scottish Office Agriculture, Environment and Fisheries Department.
[10] Hamill remained Secretary and Head of the Home Department, and was appointed CB in 1997.
[10][23] The Prisons Department was established by the Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act 1928; it was abolished by the Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act 1939, and its functions were transferred to the newly established Scottish Home Department.
The office-holder was responsible for matters of devolution, as well as the financial management of the Office and local authority finance.
Responsibility for local government finance was transferred to the Environment Department (formerly the Development Department), while management responsibilities were vested in Gerry Wilson, secretary of the Education Department; this latter arrangement was not intended to be permanent, but reflected the "relative workload" of the different grade 2 officials.