This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
Moreover, we have frequently made it clear that, despite our wish to maintain EU membership, we recognise our obligation to prepare Scotland as best we can for what might transpire.
Several years back, the attitude—certainly in some parts of our region—was that the brightest and the best would be on the first ferry, train or boat out.
We hope that the conveners will have a good involvement in that, because there is a duty of best value on the boards. It is not simply in a financial sense that we seek best value.