Question reference: S5W-35871
- Asked by: Angus MacDonald, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 9 March 2021
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Current status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 23 March 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made on establishing a Grangemouth Regulatory Hub.
Answer
The Scottish Government, working closely with our partner, Scottish Environment Protection Agency, recognises the importance of regulation to protect the environment and communities around Grangemouth, as well as being a real driver of innovation and transformational change.
The Grangemouth Future Industry Board, announced in the 2020 Programme for Government, is now in its delivery phase and has agreed its workstreams and priorities for the next 12 months. These are available on the Scottish Government’s GFIB webpage .
One workstream is to commence work to build an integrated environmental regulatory hub. This will involve a partnership approach and consider shared regulatory tools, and the opportunity to take a circular economy approach to target areas across supply chains that could deliver an accumulated benefit to reducing emissions and encourage innovation. Work to scope the partners and stakeholders who have a role in this work is underway, and from there workstream leads will identify and agree the outputs and outcomes expected of this workstream to ensure regulation is effective and facilitates a just transition.