To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the assertion made in Grasping the Thistle: How Scotland Must React to the Three Key Challenges of the Twenty First Century that (a) "profound differences in the economies of Scotland and England and the unsustainability of the prevailing UK monetary policy and currency mean an independent Scotland should have its own currency", (b) “public spending, which was once the oil that lubricated Scottish governance, has steadily become more viscous with every increasing dose, and has slowed the nations development to a standstill", (c) "the problems of Scotland’s NHS are but one symptom of a much wider disease – the disease of oversized government", (d) "Barnett, far from starving Scotland to death, as is often asserted, is actually fattening us to the point of dangerous obesity….. and that it may...