Collette Stevenson

Collette Stevenson
MSP
Official portrait, 2026
Member of the Scottish Parliament
for East Kilbride
Incumbent
Assumed office
6 May 2021
Preceded byLinda Fabiani
Majority4,944 (14.6%)
Councillor, South Lanarkshire Council
In office
5 May 2017 – 4 May 2022
ConstituencyEast Kilbride Central South
Personal details
BornCollette McDade
1969 (age 56–57)
East Kilbride, Scotland
PartyScottish National Party
EducationUniversity of the West of Scotland
OccupationAdministrator

Collette Stevenson (née McDade, born 1969) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. She has served as the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for East Kilbride since May 2021.

She served as a local councillor for South Lanarkshire's East Kilbride Central South ward from 2017 and was depute provost at the time of her election as an MSP; she stood down as a councillor ahead of the 2022 local elections.

Stevenson was raised in East Kilbride, where she lives with her family. A graduate in business from the University of the West of Scotland, she was employed in administrative roles at the local authority. She was a founding member of the East Kilbride branch of Women for Independence.

In February 2025, Stevenson was reported to be on an all-female "hit list" of SNP MSPs that were to be asked to stand down from the Scottish Parliament to make room for ex-MPs who had lost their seats in the 2024 general election. The alleged list was reported to have been drawn up at Stephen Flynn's direction by Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP Seamus Logan. In May 2025, she was reselected for the 2026 Scottish Parliament election.

In September 2026, the BBC reported that Stevenson made a serious error when she seemed to think that Transport Scotland was a charity, when in fact it is an agency of the Scottish Government. This was viewed as particularly embarrassing as she is a member of the Transport Committee at the Scottish Parliament.


References

  1. ↑ Statutory registers - Births - Search results, ScotlandsPeople
  2. ↑ Constituencies A-Z | East Kilbride, BBC News. Retrieved 8 May 2021
  3. ↑ East Kilbride councillor calls for litter crackdown in The Murray and Westwood Square, Daily Record, 9 March 2018
  4. ↑ McCall, Chris (8 May 2021). "Scotland's new MSPs: Meet the new boys and girls off to Holyrood for first time". Daily Record. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  5. ↑ Stevenson, Collette (26 September 2020). "Why I'd welcome following in the footsteps of SNP figure at Holyrood 2021". The National. Herald and Times Group. Newsquest Media Group. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  6. ↑ "Stephen Flynn 'running boys' brigade in Westminster' amid 'hit list' claim". The National. 11 February 2025. Retrieved 11 February 2025.
  7. ↑ Thomson, Ross (7 May 2025). "Current East Kilbride MSP confirmed as SNP candidate for 2026 Holyrood election". Daily Record. Retrieved 8 May 2025.
  8. ↑ "Minister defends MSP colleague after Transport Scotland blunder". BBC News. 17 September 2026. Retrieved 17 September 2026.