Extract from Scottish Parliament debate on the Scottish National Investment Bank - May 8
Wednesday, 9 May 2018 08:39
Dean Lockhart (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con):..The implementation
plan for the bank points to examples in other countries in which
national investment banks have improved economic performance. I
have worked with such banks in China,
Singapore, India and Japan, and I agree that they can
improve economic performance. However, they can do so only if they
are part of a coherent economic policy framework in which there is
clarity of focus and delivery, alignment across Government...Request free trial
(Mid Scotland and Fife)
(Con):..The implementation plan for the bank points
to examples in other countries in which national investment banks
have improved economic performance. I have worked with such banks
in China, Singapore, India and Japan, and I agree that
they can improve economic performance. However, they can do so only
if they are part of a coherent economic policy framework in which
there is clarity of focus and delivery, alignment across Government
enterprise agencies and business, and a supportive environment for
the establishment and growth of business in the first place.
Conservatives’ concern is that such clarity, alignment and support
for business have been absent from Scottish National Party economic
policy for a number of years...
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