- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 May 2017
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 18 May 2017
To ask the First Minister what issues will be discussed at the next meeting of the Cabinet.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 18 May 2017
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 08 May 2017
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 11 May 2017
To ask the First Minister what issues will be discussed at the next meeting of the Cabinet.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 11 May 2017
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 24 April 2017
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 27 April 2017
To ask the First Minister what issues will be discussed at the next meeting of the Cabinet.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 27 April 2017
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 April 2017
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 20 April 2017
To ask the First Minister what issues will be discussed at the next meeting of the Cabinet.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 20 April 2017
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 March 2017
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 23 March 2017
To ask the First Minister what issues will be discussed at the next meeting of the Cabinet.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 23 March 2017
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 13 March 2017
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 16 March 2017
To ask the First Minister what issues will be discussed at the next meeting of the Cabinet.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 16 March 2017
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 February 2017
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 9 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answers to questions S5W-00024 and S5W-00028 by Keith Brown on 31 May 2016, what (a) information SinoFortone provided about its activities elsewhere in the world and (b) analysis its officials carried out of SinoFortone’s then UK activity.
Answer
This information is published under Freedom of Information on 31 May 2016 and can be found at http://www.gov.scot/About/People/Directorates/BusinessDirectorate/foireleased.
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 February 2017
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 9 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what contact details it has for SinoFortone and whether it will confirm what contact it has had with the company’s representatives in the last six months.
Answer
The Scottish Government’s last engagement with Sinofortone was on 3 September 2016 when officials facilitated a visit, organised by Sinofortone, of a government delegation from the region of Inner Mongolia interested in learning about football development. They visited Spartans FC and the Oriam National Performance Centre at Heriot Watt University. There were no discussions about potential investment.
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 February 2017
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 9 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-00024 by Keith Brown on 31 May 2016, whether it has reassessed or plans to reassess its position on SinoFortone in light of the comments regarding the company that were made by its former director, Sir Richard Heygate, and others, in a report in The Sunday Times on 5 February 2017.
Answer
The Scottish Government has had no discussion with Sinofortone since 3 September 2016 and there are no further discussions with Sinofortone proposed.
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 February 2017
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 9 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the comments made to BBC Scotland by the Cabinet Secretary for Jobs, the Economy and Fair Work on 31 May 2016 that the Chinese companies proposing an investment deal were “serious and credible”, what the basis was for this assertion, and whether the cabinet secretary has reassessed or plans to reassess his position on SinoFortone in light of the comments regarding the company that were made by its former director, Sir Richard Heygate, and others, in a report in The Sunday Times on 5 February 2017.
Answer
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was about developing a working relationship with Sinofortone and China Railway No. 3 Engineering Group to explore potential investment in Scotland. As is clear from the 70+ pages of information on the MoU released by the Scottish Government in May 2016, we felt able to commence that relationship on the basis of discussions with UKTI and Sinofortone’s then involvement in significant projects elsewhere in the UK. As the MoU involved no legal, contractual or funding commitment on behalf of the Scottish Government detailed due diligence was not necessary.
In terms of reassessing plans, I refer the member to the answer to question
S5W-07033 on 9 March 2017. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at: http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx