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I know that quite a lot of member states feel that there is no logic in using 2011 as a start date or threshold date. That is what I was reflecting on.
Given that the long-overdue release of that £103 million has been made possible only by the Scottish Government agreeing that the other half of the fossil fuel levy money that the Treasury holds would fund the creation of the green investment bank, does the First Minister believe that the case for Edinburgh to be the home of that bank is overwhelming?
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Date answered:
15 August 2013
This is an accredited qualification based on the standards set in Scotland and the projections are that 50,000 Chinese corporate banking graduates and professionals will take this qualification within the first three years of launch.
I will continue for a moment and then come back to Jamie McGrigor.I cite that saintly figure, the Rev Stephen Green, the chairman of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, who had the honesty to come out in public and say that much banking activity is socially useless.
On quite a narrow but very important point, in essence you could not plan the schedule of work sufficiently early because you did not know the dates. Although you knew the drop-dead date for completion, you could not start on the activities until you had things from the UK Government.
A model around progressive procurement aggregation that allows people in different places to link in at a later date and move towards a shared outcome would be helpful.