Question reference: S6W-24371
- Asked by: Keith Brown, MSP for Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 5 January 2024
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Current status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 8 January 2024
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the potential impact of independence on Scotland’s economy.
Answer
The Scottish Government continues to deliver on its commitment to give people the information they need to make an informed choice about their future, and I’m pleased to confirm that today the First Minister is launching a series of speeches on the opportunities independence would bring to Scotland’s economy.
The speeches will set out the Scottish Government's vision for a stronger and more productive economy that could be delivered with independence, further developing the economic strand of the Building a New Scotland (BaNS) prospectus.
The speech also sets out three key measures for a successful industrial policy for an independent Scotland:
- Joining the EU as an independent country;
- Establishing a dynamic government Ministry for Industrial Policy and consensus building institutions to drive the strategy;
- Targeted capital spending investment in key areas of comparative advantage, a proposal for a Building a New Scotland Fund already set out in the third BaNS paper: A Stronger Economy with Independence .
Ministers will deliver further speeches on the opportunities independence would bring to Scotland’s economy in the coming months. The speech text “Building a New Scotland: Industrial Strategy in an Independent Scotland” is available to view on the Scottish Government website from today at www.gov.scot/newscotland .