Scottish Constitution Secretary responds to UK government announcement

Constitution Secretary Angus Robertson has responded to the UK Government announcement  that the UK and EU have agreed for the UK to associate to the Erasmus+ programme from 2027:

The Cabinet Secretary said:

“The Scottish Government welcomes the agreement which has been reached on Erasmus+.  This is good news for Scotland, and something we have consistently argued for – including publishing a Scottish Governement position paper in March, two months before the UK-EU May summit when in principle agreement was reached.

“We regret that the UK Government ever took us out of the Erasmus+ programme – despite Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledging in the House of Commons in early 2020 to keep the UK in.

“We will now work positively to maximise the benefits and take up of the scheme as well as ensuring it enables people to participate and not keep them out – noting that Scotland always had a proportionately higher take up than the UK as a whole.”