Current status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 4 April 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-35531 by Richard Lochhead on 18 March 2025, what steps it has taken to measure progress towards meeting the targets set out in its 2021 document, A Strategy for Space in Scotland.
2021’s A Strategy for Space in Scotland is a document jointly owned between industry, government and academia, and sets out the goal of achieving a £4 billion market share of the global space market and creating over 20,000 jobs in the sector by 2030.
The Scottish Government regularly engages key partners across the space eco-system to discuss sector growth and the economic progress of the sector is monitored against the UK Space Agency’s Size and Health of the Space Industry report, which is published annually.