That's it from us after a big day in Edinburgh.

Here's a recap of what happened.

• John Swinney was sworn in as first minister in a ceremony at the Court Of Session.
• Jenny Gilruth was appointed as his deputy and takes on the finance brief.
• Ivan McKee has been given the job of reforming Scotland's public services.
• Holyrood newcomer Stephen Flynn joins the cabinet to run the economy, transport and tourism.
• Swinney's new cabinet has a majority of women members.
• With nine members, the cabinet table has three fewer seats this time around.

Thanks for joining us. Today's live page was edited by Craig Williams. The writers were Megan Bonar and Benjamin Russell.

Many names are the same but it's all change at St Andrew's Housepublished at 17:37 BST 20 May

17:37 BST 20 May

Glenn Campbell
BBC Scotland Political Editor

A few thoughts as a long afternoon of change nears its end.

This is not a continuity cabinet.

Yes, seven of its nine members were there before the election. But everyone except the first minister has a new job.

The portfolios have been reorganised to allow Swinney to appoint a smaller team.

For me, the most striking change is that Ivan McKee has been promoted to cabinet and put in charge of public service reform.

This is a subject about which he is passionate. He hates waste and inefficiency and given his way is likely to push for significant change.

The direct entry to cabinet for the SNP’s former Westminster leader Stephen Flynn also feels significant.

Putting this ambitious politician into power will keep him busy, and as economy secretary he is likely to champion the oil and gas industry.

A third appointment of note is the elevation of Jenny Gilruth to deputy first minister.

There were signs she was in favour during the election campaign, not least when she was chosen to introduce Swinney at the SNP’s manifesto launch.

As deputy first minister, it seems she will now share responsibility with Swinney for putting the party’s policy promises into practice.

As a former teacher, Gilruth has plenty of experience in checking on progress, marking homework, and keeping others focussed on the task in hand.

These are skills she may need to draw upon as a deputy first minister and finance secretary who has said she will “dedicate myself to delivering”.

All change again for culture but same problems remainpublished at 17:31 BST 20 May

17:31 BST 20 May

Pauline McLean
BBC Scotland Arts Correspondent

It’s not just the ministers who have been moved around, but the portfolios they look after.

Culture is no longer banded in with the constitution, Europe and external affairs, and is once again back in with education and Gaelic.

These might make better bedfellows and reduce the need for the international travel which earned the previous incumbent Angus Robertson so much criticism.

Màiri McAllan will still have the same challenges from a sector where demand far exceeds public funds.

The organisations responsible for our culture and heritage - including the arts agency Creative Scotland - are likely to remain in the spotlight for the choices they make.

It’s also a vast and varied sector with McAllan’s own love - traditional music - at one end of the spectrum, and the film and TV industry at the other.

One of the first issues in her in-tray is likely to be the Ofcom review of STV’s proposal to merge its separate north and central regional news bulletins.

Swinney takes the lead in fight for independencepublished at 17:24 BST 20 May

17:24 BST 20 May

Jenni Davidson
BBC Scotland senior politics reporter

John Swinney will take direct responsibility for independence and the constitution himself in his new pared-down cabinet.

This brief was held by Angus Robertson as cabinet secretary for the constitution, external affairs and culture in the last parliament.

Before that, under Humza Yousaf’s leadership, there was a junior government ministerial post of minister for independence. Swinney abolished that and brought the brief to the cabinet table when he became first minister.

By bringing the constitution under his own wing now, the first minister is conveying a couple of different messages.

Firstly, that he’s keeping the size of the cabinet to a minimum. Reducing roles and cutting back in a way that reflects the kind of belt-tightening that is likely to be a hallmark of this parliamentary term.

But more importantly, it sends a strong signal to his own supporters that independence is such a high priority that he will handle it himself.

During the election campaign, Swinney vowed to bring forward a vote on the powers to hold another referendum on the first parliamentary day of the new government.

The Scottish Greens have been calling on hm to keep that promise.

He also stated during an election debate that another independence referendum could take place as early as 2028.

It will now be on his shoulders to take forward discussions with the prime minister to try to deliver on that.

We are getting towards the end of our live coverage of today's events, but the people who'll make up the next layer of government are still heading into Bute House.

Alison Thewliss has gone in. Another one of the former MPs to have joined Holyrood this term, she was at Westminster from 2015 to 2024.

She challenged Stephen Flynn to become the party's Westminster leader. Will they now be working together?

A fairly new SNP figure - Simita Kumar - has also turned up.

The Fiji-born politician was until earlier this month an Edinburgh city councillor.

Though this page is coming to an end, you can keep across any more announcements on our news pages this evening and into tomorrow.

Getting Scotland moving againpublished at 17:12 BST 20 May

17:12 BST 20 May

David Henderson
Scotland news correspondent

Stephen Flynn is in charge of a broad economy, tourism and transport brief.

It’s his first ministerial role, and he'll clearly have a lot on his plate.

A crisis at Calmac made ferries an early flashpoint in the election campaign - with breakdowns and a lack of operational ferries causing anger on the west coast.

The decade-long delay to the dualling of the A9 will have frustrated John Swinney, who represents large parts of Perthshire that the road runs through.

Progress is required on both fronts.

The future of the nationalised Ferguson shipyard on the Clyde remains unclear, as it recently missed out on contracts which might have secured its future.

There are already plans in place to tackle the ferry shortage and dualling the A9, although their delivery will take years.

But there's another big project to grapple with.

There's a majority in parliament for root-and-branch reform of Scotland's ailing bus network.

It’s the cornerstone of the public transport system, carrying far more passengers than trains.

The SNP and Greens agree on the need to cap bus fares at £2 per journey, which they say will ease cost of living pressures for many Scots.

Along with the Lib Dems and Labour, they also pledged to ditch the deregulated bus system, in place across most of Scotland.

A Manchester-style franchise system looks set to be the replacement.

Supporters claim this will boost the economy and better serve communities where the bus network has withered.

But taking forward that measure requires complex planning and new funding.

It’s a big challenge for this new cabinet minister.

The former Scottish Liberal Democrat leader, Willie Rennie, has wished the new cabinet well but warns of "an enormous task ahead fixing the problems created by their predecessors over the last twenty years."

He goes on to say that challenge is made bigger because "their predecessors are in the new cabinet too".

“The new cabinet looks pretty much like the old cabinets but just with different job titles," he said.

Next in is Jamie Hepburn.

You might recognise that name. He was previously the minister for parliamentary business but quit his government job after former Conservative leader Douglas Ross claimed he had grabbed him and swore aggressively outside the Holyrood chamber.

The SNP MSP admitted using a few "choice words" after a clash over discussions about a summit on problem seagulls spilled out of the Holyrood chamber.

He is followed by Kirsten Oswald, another previous SNP MP. She lost her seat in 2024 but has now joined the Holyrood ranks.

Is Ivan McKee the most important person in the Scottish government?published at 16:37 BST 20 May

16:37 BST 20 May

David Henderson
Scotland news correspondent

Ivan McKee is the new cabinet secretary for public service reform.

The prominence John Swinney gives this new role suggests he sees it as a defining priority.

Little wonder.

Despite increased investment over 19 years of SNP government, public satisfaction with services has fallen.

And there's a looming black hole in public finances.

The Scottish government itself revealed it faces a funding gap approaching £5bn by the end of the decade.

And a spending watchdog, Scotland's auditor general, warned there's no detailed plan to fill it.

The Scottish government is constrained from borrowing much and it has to balance its budget each year.

So John Swinney will have to rein in spending across the board.

At the same time, he's committed to increased spending on key SNP priorities.

So he'll have to find major additional savings to pay for them.

This could involve painful trade-offs, which weren't debated much during the election campaign.

As a junior minister for public finance, Ivan McKee launched Scotland's Public Service Reform Strategy in parliament.

His target: reducing spending on "back office costs" across public bodies by £1bn over five years.

Now in Cabinet, he'll be expected to go further and faster, to balance the books and give John Swinney the headroom he needs to fund new priorities.

Tough fight over police, prisons and courts for new justice secretarypublished at 16:25 BST 20 May

16:25 BST 20 May

David Cowan
Home Affairs Correspondent

New Justice Secretary Neil Gray takes over from a former criminal justice social worker who had first hand experience of Scotland's prisons and courts and impressed many senior figures in the sector.

That only took Angela Constance so far when she faced never-ending demands for more resources from Scotland's under-pressure cops, prison bosses, fire service chiefs and court officials.

Neil Gray will face exactly the same budget constraints. Justice isn't a sacred cow like the NHS. He'll have to fight his corner.

An immediate headache is Scotland's prison population, which has just reached another record high, despite the emergency early release of more than 1400 criminals over the last two years.

The automatic release point for hundreds of short-term prisoners is being lowered again this month. Many will have committed serious crimes and some will do so again.

Inevitably, Gray's political future will involve controversial decisions on prisons, fallouts with police and others over funding, and high-profile court cases which may or may not make his life more difficult.

We're now beginning to see who will be filling up the junior ministerial roles.

So far, new MSP for Shetland Hannah Mary Goodlad has arrived at Bute House in a taxi, while Stephen Gethins, like Stephen Flynn also fresh from Westminster, has also been spotted going in.

It's the turn of the Scottish Conservatives to pass their verdict on John Swinney's cabinet, and it's fair to say they're not impressed.

The party's deputy leader, Rachael Hamilton, accused the first minister of "recycling of the same failed SNP faces" which "demonstrates the chronic lack of talent at his disposal".

She said: "Jenny Gilruth was a flop as transport minister and, as education secretary, did nothing to tackle the epidemic of classroom violence, yet she’s been rewarded with the most important portfolio and the role of Swinney’s deputy.

“Neil Gray and Angela Constance presided over crisis, chaos and scandal as health and justice secretary respectively, yet we’re to believe that things will improve by them swapping jobs.

“The SNP’s dire record on transport probably explains why Swinney has handed that poisoned chalice to Stephen Flynn, the man eyeing up his job.”

Inevitably, all the focus today has been on what's been happening in the SNP.

But now their political opponents are having their say.

Scottish Labour's deputy leader Jackie Baillie says the first minister is "kidding if he thinks his new cabinet amounts to a fresh start".

She said: “The same failed ministers are simply being shuffled around the table with one joker being added to the deck.

“There is no reason to believe that the same people who created this crisis are capable of solving it."

She said Swinney moving Gray away from health is "a catastrophic admission that Scotland’s NHS is being failed".

She added: "For the sake of patients, victims and communities across Scotland, these ministers must finally get a grip."

More from that media huddle with John Swinney outside Bute House.

Asked by the BBC’s James Cook whether the public should be prepared for tax rises or public services cuts, Swinney said: “What people should be prepared for is reform.”

He said he is putting public sector reform at the heart of government to ensure it “delivers on the expectation on the public” in a “fiscally sustainable” way.

"Its about changing the way we deliver public services," he says.

He has just appointed Ivan McKee as Secretary for Public Sector reform.

Back to ABC for new education secretarypublished at 16:05 BST 20 May

16:05 BST 20 May

Lucy Adams
BBC Scotland education correspondent

The new Education Secretary Màiri McAllan will have her work cut out as she gets behind her desk.

And the task ahead breaks down to the most simple thing in education - knowing your ABC.

A is for Attendance, still a problem compared to before the pandemic. It's lowest for kids from the poorest backgrounds and also lower among those with additional support needs. The latter category now represents more that 43% of the school roll - with demands for more resources to support them.

A also stands for Achievement. The persistent attainment gap remains a challenge for the SNP.

Academics warn that while closing it was a worthy aim, it’s not easy to achieve.

B is for Behaviour, with teachers and unions speaking out about the rise in disruption and violence.

Jenny Gilruth published new guidance for schools on consequences for bad behaviour in 2024 - but just this week BBC Scotland News reported a rise of 55% in assaults on school staff by pupils.

C is for Curriculum – with an ongoing review of the heavily-criticised Curriculum for Excellence (CFE).

Officially, ministers say CFE is not being replaced, but transformed. International PISA results later this year will shine a light on how the performance of Scotland's education system compares to other countries.

Much of the comment on the new cabinet tonight, in the coming days, and potentially over the course of the coming parliament, will be on Scottish government new-comer Stephen Flynn.

He's taking charge of the economy brief.

Swinney says during the election campaign he empathised “the importance of growing and strengthening the economy”.

He says all ministers will play a role in achieving that but Flynn will be key.

“I know that Stephen Flynn will give excellent leadership to all of that activity,” he says.

Asked if Flynn's role will see the football fan jetting off to the World Cup, Swinney says they are "optimistic".

Tough job for new health secretarypublished at 15:50 BST 20 May

15:50 BST 20 May

Lisa Summers
BBC Scotland health correspondent

The new health secretary will have one of the most important and difficult jobs in this cabinet.

So how does a long serving MSP like Angela Constance turn around a series of NHS missed targets like A&E or cancer waits?

Promises made by the SNP on healthcare during this election broadly amount to plans to stop things getting worse. Previous manifestos included major reforms to create a National Care Service or build national treatment centres, which ended up being scrapped.

Top priorities will be familiar from the last parliament. Like ending the 08:00 rush for GP appointments with more walk-in clinics. Something doctors have said will not work.

Also, commitments that no-one will wait over 26 weeks for specialist treatment by 2031, despite years of missing the 12-week wait policy which the SNP enshrined in law.

Medical and financial experts don’t dispute these are valid aims but say tough decisions are needed to meet patients’ needs and keep the NHS free at the point of use.

“It’s important that in the time of an election that the governments approach is refreshed by giving people new challenges," says Swinney.

Neil Gray and Angela Constance will essentially swap the health and justice jobs.

Swinney says Neil Gray did a “super job” in reducing long waits in the NHS and will do a superb job dealing with justice where there are a "number of issues to be wrestled with”.

He says Constance will be able to bring her "experience, energy and commitment" to her new health role.

"A blend of experience but also a fresh perspective," he added.

Swinney says he wanted to bring Jenny Gilruth’s “strength, capability and political intelligence” into the “heart of government”.

He she is an "accomplished minister" and a “government functions well” when a combination of “financial control and policy agenda” work are at its heart.

He says having a deputy FM with responsibility for finance will allow that him to achieve that.

When asked if they will be good cop/bad cop, he says: “We’ll be working together to make sure the government is successful.”

Speaking outside Bute House, John Swinney says he is "immensely proud" to unveil his "leaner, more agile government".

He said: "This new team will hit the ground running, delivering major progress on our priorities within the first 100 days before continuing to deliver on the emphatic mandate given to us by the people of Scotland."

He says his team will bring "experience, drive and a determination to deliver for Scotland", adding they will "work harder than ever to repay the trust that people have placed in us."