Current status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 28 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will engage with the ScotWind leasing round winners, Scottish Power Renewables, SSE Renewables, Falck Renewables, Vattenfall, Shell, DEME, Ocean Winds, BayWa, Offshore Wind Power, Northland Power and Magnora, to request that they co-operate with BP in the development of a common Offshore Support Vessel (OSV) new-build programme to be designed and built in Scotland.
Ministers remain fully committed to utilising every lever within their devolved competence to support and grow domestic supply chain which is why we are working to realise our ambitions for the offshore wind supply chain in Scotland through The Scottish Offshore Wind Energy Council.
Our Collaborative Framework will help forge effective partnerships to deliver on supply chain potential. New ScotWind leaseholders have joined existing Scottish offshore wind developers in signing up to a Collaborative Framework Charter, agreeing to work jointly together to build a pipeline of supply chain work greater than the sum of its individual parts. 24 organisations, including representatives of all 17 ScotWind projects with signed lease option agreements, have agreed to work together in the development and delivery of this Collaborative Framework.