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The Bank will play a clear role in promoting diversity and inclusiveness and the Government is clear that the Bank should have inclusivity and diversity at the heart of all it does.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 March 2018
A further £340m will be made available to capitalise the Bank over the period 2019-2021. Ministers will give further consideration to the Implementation Plan recommendations for capitalisation of the bank in the next stage of planning.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has repeatedly opposed local plans to manage and dredge the river, and has cut into the bank, which has affected the golf course, houses and other structures.
Our green industrial strategy and the work of the Scottish National Investment Bank and our enterprise agencies are key to securing further growth in investment, which will, in turn, benefit all of our communities.
Our green industrial strategy and the work of the Scottish National Investment Bank and our enterprise agencies are key to securing further growth in investment, which will, in turn, benefit all of our communities.
The response from ScotRail notes that, although it has no current plans to upgrade the retail infrastructure to support the use of bank cards for tap-on-tap-off rail journeys—which is how you get around the London Underground—it is actively pursuing a pilot scheme for a mobile phone app to achieve a similar outcome.
Could we also write to ScotRail to seek information on its evaluation of the options for upgrading the infrastructure to support the use of contactless bank cards on the rail network? I am happy with that.
The member is absolutely correct to raise the important issue of the recent disturbing and destabilising developments in the international banking sector. In related areas, there has been engagement from Scottish Enterprise, particularly around the issues pertaining to the tech sector.
It is estimated that the material damage will be up to $30 billion and that 45 per cent of the country’s agricultural land has been destroyed. The World Bank estimates that the floods could push 15 million people into poverty.
The best initiative that we had at the Bank of Scotland was when Bruce Pattullo said in the early 1980s, “Our objective is to double the size of the bank in 10 years.”