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The Official Report is a written record of public meetings of the Parliament and committees.  

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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 9 July 2025
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Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee

Budget Scrutiny 2025-26

Meeting date: 14 January 2025

Douglas Lumsden

Why not? The front page of The Press and Journal today says:

“SNP must ditch its stance on oil and gas future”.

How do we know where we are going as a country if we do not have a strategy?

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee

Budget Scrutiny 2025-26

Meeting date: 14 January 2025

Douglas Lumsden

With a presumption against oil and gas, I presume that there will not be any spend to help the oil and gas sector.

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee

Budget Scrutiny 2025-26

Meeting date: 14 January 2025

Douglas Lumsden

I will move on to carbon capture and storage, for which £80 million was pledged in 2022. I do not think that any of that has been spent yet, and there is nothing in the 2025-26 budget to support CCS, is there?

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee

Budget Scrutiny 2025-26

Meeting date: 14 January 2025

Douglas Lumsden

But you could be spending that money to get the cluster ready for when track status—

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee

Budget Scrutiny 2025-26

Meeting date: 14 January 2025

Douglas Lumsden

But money could be spent to improve the supply chain.

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee

Subordinate Legislation

Meeting date: 14 January 2025

Douglas Lumsden

Surely, we should not be getting to net zero by switching off our manufacturing industry. That is the basis of Jim Ratcliffe’s comments in the article that was published yesterday.

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee

Subordinate Legislation

Meeting date: 14 January 2025

Douglas Lumsden

So, you do not have any concerns that our manufacturing industry is closing down because of the regulations that have been put in place by the UK and Scottish Governments.

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee

Budget Scrutiny 2025-26

Meeting date: 14 January 2025

Douglas Lumsden

I will be brief, convener.

I will follow on from Monica Lennon’s questions. For the first four years of the just transition fund, up to £90 million will be made available, which leaves about £410 million for the remaining six years of the fund, so the annual amount would go from £15.9 million up to about £68 million a year after 2025-26. Is that feasible, when we do not have a just transition plan?

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee

Budget Scrutiny 2025-26

Meeting date: 14 January 2025

Douglas Lumsden

Okay. We will move on to hydrogen. A £100 million hydrogen action plan was announced a few years ago. How much of that has been spent?

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee

Budget Scrutiny 2025-26

Meeting date: 14 January 2025

Douglas Lumsden

I have a quick question on ScotWind, first of all. You mentioned the one-off payment, which was £700 million. It seems that the Scottish Government is using that almost as an overdraft; if there are in-year pressures, it will dip into that money and put it back later. You mentioned annual revenues, too. You say that you do not know how much they will be, but do you know when they will start feeding into the Scottish budget?