Rolls-Royce Submarines (Scottish Enterprise Funding) | Topical Question Time | Scottish Parliament debates

The Scottish Government’s position is, frankly, incoherent. Its policy on state-funded aid for defence is all over the place and applied selectively. I will give one example. The Scottish Government owns and funds work at the Ferguson Marine shipyard. Ferguson Marine is doing subcontract work for BAE Systems on the Royal Navy’s type 26 frigate programme. There will be munitions on the frigates. Why is that acceptable but funding Rolls-Royce in partnership with the Malin Group to establish a welding school is not? Is the Scottish National Party putting its interests before the interests of jobs and the economy and the best interests of Scotland?

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