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It is a new fund that will invest in new digital companies and digital media, with a view to developing digital content, such as games and social websites. A substantial part of that fund will be aimed at and located in Scotland.
It is based at Children in Scotland's office and its director is Brian McKechnie, of the University of Strathclyde. Its priorities are to develop a website with materials that are accessible and usable by all and to run introductory roadshows across Scotland in February and March.
That is why, in August, I announced a review of the policy and published on the Scottish Government's website a short paper that invites people's views on how best to take forward our involvement.
You are quite right that the welfare analysis that Ben Read mentioned, if properly done, shows that putting a floor on prices that is well above the market price would have a significant impact in transferring money—quite substantial amounts of it, conceivably—from consumers to producers or suppliers.
We had a problem last year when Longannet went offline at the same time as a nuclear station and the transmission system did not allow us to transfer energy across the country to balance that.
I note that, on the Scottish Government's website, the national conversation is represented by an icon of a small man, all alone, shouting through a megaphone.
Professor Sweeney—not Swinney—issued a stark warning only this week:"In terms of going independent I would say be careful of what you wish for ... The transfer of wealth from south east England to other parts of the UK is necessary and shouldn't be something to be ashamed of".