The Advocate General for Scotland, Lord Wallace of Tankerness QC, is the Scotland Office official spokesperson in the House of Lords.
Where a department does not have a Peer as a Minister, a member of the House of Lords is identified as an official spokesperson to ensure that the department is represented in the House of Lords as well as the House of Commons.
The main area where the Scotland Office Lords spokesperson represents the department is when the House of Lords is debating affirmative statutory instruments in the House of Lords. He also repeats any oral statements in the Lords that have been given by the Secretary of State for Scotland in the House of Commons. Similarly, written ministerial statements in the Lords are also made in the spokesperson's name. The spokesperson also responds to both oral and written Parliamentary Questions that fall within the responsibility of the Scotland Office.