High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Scottish Government (Scottish Gaelic: Riaghaltas na h-Alba) is the executive arm of the devolved government of Scotland. It was established in 1999 as the Scottish Executive, from the extant Scottish Office, and the term Scottish Executive (or Administration) remains its legal name under the Scotland Act 1998. Following the 2007 Scottish Parliament election, the term Executive was changed to Government by the Scottish National Party administration in 2007. The Scotland Bill (2011) contains a clause which, if the Bill passes into law, will makes this change legal in statute.