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In a situation where golden hello payments are being made to heavy goods vehicle drivers so that we can all have the latest iPhone, I would say to the Scottish Government that we need to look at valuing the care that our elderly relatives and disabled people—who are the most vulnerable people in our society—are receiving.
If there is already a port, what constitutes “new” infrastructure? If you add staff and desks and perhaps expand a building, is that new or existing infrastructure?
That is for the longer term, but what about this year? Some of the new powers are coming, and it is worth exploring the new processes that will relate to them.
I am getting a lot of correspondence from new MSPs on the issue, and a number of questions today as well.One of the issues with data centres is that they have to be in the right place.
There have been recent reports of UK Government advisers telling businesses that the best way to avoid border issues and VAT problems is to set up a new company within the EU single market.
I raised concerns directly with the UK Government’s business minister, Paul Scully, in a meeting last week, and I have written to the new Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Kwasi Kwarteng, on that and other issues.
Will she impress on her Cabinet colleagues that improving connectivity, particularly by improving the A75 and providing a number of new stations, is important in ensuring that the region’s economy grows?
Before we begin, I remind members of the social distancing rules that are in place throughout the Holyrood campus—in particular, our new rules on colleagues wearing masks when moving around.