Alex Neil (born 22 August 1951 in Patna, East Ayrshire) is the Scottish Government's Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure and Capital Investment and Scottish National Party Member of the Scottish Parliament for Airdrie and Shotts.

Born into a mining family he became involved in Labour Politics, joining the Labour Party in the mid 1960s. He would become the chairman of both the Scottish Organisation of Labour Students and later the UK wide National Organisation of Labour Students. After graduating from the University of Dundee with a degree in economics he became the Senior Researcher for the Labour Party in Scotland.

In 1976, he, along with Jim Sillars MP and John Robertson MP left the Labour Party's Scottish branch to form the breakaway group, Scottish Labour Party (SLP). By 1979 the SLP had collapsed and Neil fell out of active politics until 1985 when he joined the Scottish National Party (SNP).

Neil would go on to become the SNP's Publicity Director, and then in charge of the party's policy, as well as a candidate in the 1989 Glasgow Central by-election and candidate in the Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency in both the 1992 and 1997 General Elections.

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Neil Findlay is a Scottish Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament, representing the Lothian region. He is also involved in West lothian council as a Councillor, a member of the Performance Committee, Local Area Committee and the Services for the Community Policy Development and Scrutiny Panel.He is also a member of the West Lothian Development Trust.