The Bute House Agreement, officially the Cooperation Agreement between the Scottish Government and the Scottish Green Party Parliamentary Group was a power-sharing agreement between the Scottish National Party (SNP) government and the Scottish Greens which was agreed in August 2021 to support the Third Sturgeon government and then was reaffirmed to support the First Yousaf government.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and the co-leaders of the Scottish Greens, Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater, outside Bute House on 30 August 2021
Green minister and co-leader Lorna Slater (second left) attends a meeting of the Scottish cabinet, 2023.
Nicola Sturgeon with Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater announcing the Bute House Agreement on 20 August 2021
Green co-leaders Lorna Slater (left) and Patrick Harvie (right) were appointed as ministers under the agreement
The Scottish National Party is a Scottish nationalist and social democratic political party. It has governed Scotland since 2007.
Alexander MacEwen, the first leader of the Scottish National Party from 1934 to 1936.
The first SNP administration led by Alex Salmond as First Minister of Scotland, here seated next to Nicola Sturgeon in Bute House
Nicola Sturgeon led the party and served as First Minister for nine years from November 2014 to March 2023.
Sturgeon addresses journalists at Bute House over her plans to hold a referendum in 2023, a proposal that would fail after the Supreme Court ruled the parliament didn't have the power.
