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Graham Simpson touched on that, and there are definitely questions about getting the right people around the table and the potential roles for the Scottish National Investment Bank and people from the community, including workers and trade unions.
I was pleased to read that the Scottish National Investment Bank was working with Black Professionals Scotland, which is a great group that does some amazing work.
It is a citizens advice bureau outreach centre, a food bank and a base for Upward Mobility, which supports more than 20 remarkable students who just need a helping hand.
Typically, and much more nowadays, rather than getting old-fashioned lending from a bank, developers will get it from an institutional funder or a range of institutional funders, which could be located anywhere.
That public funding sits in somebody’s bank account for four, five or six months until we get it agreed, and then we have four, five or six months in which to spend it, after which the whole cycle starts all over again.
Business, virtually every economic policy body in Scotland and the banking sector are all adamant that economic growth is vital to our recovery from the pandemic.