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Under EU state aid rules the Scottish Government is required to calculate a notional amount of interest, equivalent to the cost of borrowing at approximately market rates, which constitutes a ‘de minimis’ state aid to the recipient.
I am pleased to welcome Richard Lochhead, Minister for Business and Employment, and Dr Pieter van de Graaf, who is head of international trade flows and regulations at the Scottish Government.
It got the FIRST Exploration & Petroleum Development and Moray east pins contracts. I might need my officials to provide a timeline for the company bidding for those contracts, which could be helpful to the committee.
Myself and my family and friends, we got on more bikes like I said my brother was a keen cyclist, so he came up with the idea of La Tour de Britain and am started off, I think the La Tour de France that year and from I think it was York.
If that is the case—if the First Minister wants to be judged on education, if her job is on the line and if, as she said, there are fewer things that are more important than education—why does she not ditch the de facto referendum and make the next election all about her record on Scotland’s schools?
We have added some features in some places, but we have not changed the site network. As I mentioned, we do not de-designate stuff, even when the features are no longer present because of climate change or whatever.
There was a bit of a risk for the Scottish Government in de-ring fencing and baselining without the accountability framework in place, but it was what you might describe as a goodwill gesture, while recognising that some areas remain to be discussed.
As for the DBI programme, which you mentioned, it has, in our view, been quite a success story in Scotland, and it has been particularly effective in de-escalating distress for many thousands of people since its inception.