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If we can bring those added-value opportunities to local areas, that will be another way of de-risking the industry and building greater resilience in the supply chain.
Projects such as prison radio are extremely good because they engage people through music and sound and give them appropriate skills, including teamworking. Magazine production is another example.
I am sure that Nicol Stephen will join me in welcoming the fact that, yesterday, in the magazine fDi, which is published by the Financial Times, Scotland beat 38 other European competitors to be named the European region of the future.
I was going to ask about the comments that the witnesses made about the culture, but I do not think that we have time, so I will instead focus on the estate. I share John Swinney’s incredulity about Dalmarnock. That police station is less than 10 years old and cost £24 million, but it is 80 per cent empty.
Liz Cameron, who is the chief executive of Scottish Chambers of Commerce, said that businesses are “incredulous”. They are. I have been contacted by a number of businesses, all of which are too nervous to go public.
No, thank you. That company would be able to de-risk private investment in new technologies such as tidal and offshore floating wind while accelerating the deployment of existing technologies.
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.