That the Parliament notes the belief that the Scottish Government should have an industrial strategy that prioritises building critical infrastructure, such as ferries, within Scotland and by Scottish manufacturers; acknowledges what it considers to be the highly skilled workforce at Ferguson Marine and the shipyard’s previous role in delivering vessels for the CalMac fleet; understands that CMAL, as a procuring body, must seek to maximise domestic manufacturing and content and can do so whilst remaining within the law; expresses its disappointment that CMAL chose not to award the contract for seven small CalMac vessels to Ferguson Marine, and that the Scottish Government also ruled out a direct award of this contract to the yard earlier in 2025; notes the ongoing public calls led by the GMB trade union and supported by workers, local businesses, members of the public and Ferguson Marine's management for the Scottish Government to make a direct award to the yard for the replacement of MV Lord of the Isles; further notes the view that CMAL and the Scottish Government should seek to use the second round of the Small Vessel Replacement Programme (SVRP) to support Ferguson Marine; highlights what it sees as the economic and social significance of the yard to the West Scotland region; believes that procurement law in the rest of the UK requires a minimum 10% social value weighting element in the assessment of bids for shipbuilding contracts, but that this is not currently replicated in Scotland; understands that the Scottish Government has only delivered £570,000 of the £14.2 million investment promised in June 2024 to help make the Ferguson Marine yard more productive, efficient and competitive to win more work, and notes the calls for the Scottish Government to make a direct award to the yard for the replacement of MV Lord of the Isles, to deliver the remaining promised investment and to take appropriate steps to improve procurement law to ensure proper social value weighting in the assessment of future shipbuilding contract bids.