Question reference: S5W-03736
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: 12 October 2016
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Current status: Answered by Keith Brown on 31 October 2016
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what public funds that it has responsibility for have supported development, manufacture or marketing in the arms trade in each of the last 10 years.
Answer
of their operating strategy. As well as direct financial support, various graduate placements, summer placements and specialist advice services have also been supported by HIE.
Scottish Enterprise (SE) supports companies to address the defence market through the relevant deployment of all of its support mechanisms including financial support through grants and equity investment.
The financial support provided by SE and HIE, to businesses operating in the defence market since 2006-7 is shown in the table below: SE & HIE – Financial Support to the Defence Industry in the last 10 years
Year | SE Defence £ | HIE Defence £ | Total |
2006-07 | 1,520,964 | 10,826 | 1,520,964 |
2007-08 | 1,253,030 | 116,880 | 1,369,910 |
2008-09 | 1,290,064 | 1,241 | 1,291,305 |
2009-10 | 1,494,426 | 19,881 | 1,514,307 |
2010-11 | 1,764,547 | 364,042 | 2,128,589 |
2011-12 | 773,456 | 69,875 | 843,331 |
2012-13 | 479,535 | 125,063 | 604,598 |
2013-14 | 3,164,587 | 593,574 | 3,758,161 |
2014-15 | 3,091,504 | 782,871 | 3,874,375 |
2015-16 | 276,379 | 869,119 | 1,145,498 |
Total | 15,108,4922 | 2,942,546* | 18,051,038 |
*The total figure for ‘HIE Corrected’ equals £2,942,546 whereas the correct amount should actually be £2,942,547 due to rounding (to the £). The individual totals per financial year have not been affected by this issue.