Current status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 17 March 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it took, prior to awarding a £1.83 million grant to Offshore Solutions Group, to assess whether that grant could cause displacement through loss of business or loss of opportunity to other sectors, including loss of revenue for ports and harbours with existing capacity to provide the required storage and for the inshore fishing sector, whose fishing grounds might be severely affected by the use of those areas for the storage of around 60 large offshore wind platform bases.
As the grant provided to Offshore Solutions Group was from Scottish Enterprise rather than Scottish Government, this is an operational matter for Scottish Enterprise. I have asked their CEO, Adrian Gillespie, to respond to you directly.