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We also know from the SPICe dataset that productivity in Scotland is below the UK average; that expenditure on R and D by businesses in Scotland is almost half the UK average; and that industrial investment in the private sector in Scotland lags behind that in the UK.
Would any reduction on business rates be dependent on a business undertaking R and D or saving energy, or would the Labour Party have a reduction in business rates without those conditions?
While we are funding the industry to carry out R and D, we are charging disproportionate amounts of money for people to connect to the grid when they are in an R and D phase.
I invite members who wish to speak in the debate to press their request-to-speak button now or as soon as they can, and those who are joining us online to put an R in the chat function. I call Shirley-Anne Somerville to speak to and move the motion.
It has been great to see renowned smokie producer Iain R Spink welcoming travellers to Scotland, with his picture adorning the arrival halls in our airports.
Ireland, too, has a number of islands, some of which I have visited, including Aran—with one r—Rathlin, which is across from Kintyre, and Clare Island, which I found one of the most exciting and is in my favourite Irish county of Mayo.
To that, I would add the important contribution that the UK’s four-year R and D programme will make. That involves £125 million of funding to support about 100 projects—many of them at Scottish universities such as Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt and Strathclyde—and aims to reduce the costs of CCS by developing cheaper and more efficient technologies and components ...