Motions for Debate S5M-16312 Ivan McKee: Building on Scotland s Strengths in Technology and Engineering ’ to Become Europe s Leading Space Nation ’ —That the Parliament welcomes the rapid growth of the Scottish space sector; notes that it now accounts for 18% of all jobs in the UK space industry; encourages investment in support of the ambition to deliver a full end-to-end space sector capability in Scotland, to build, launch and operate satellites; agrees that now is the time to take advantage of the strengths that Scotland has in technology, engineering and data science to realise this ambition; further agrees that Scotland's clear strengths in small satellite manufacturing and space data are starting points for success, laying the foundations for Scotland to become Europe s leading space nation, and considers that this success will be enhanced by Scotland's ’ plan to become the site of the first spaceport in Europe.