Meeting of the Parliament 25 November 2015
I am grateful for that piece of information of which I was aware.
The request comes not from a businessperson or directly from the United Kingdom Government but via the Cabinet Secretary for Justice. Many people might reasonably anticipate that the Cabinet Secretary for Justice would come to the Justice Committee to exhort people to adhere to the law of the land. I asked him what approach he would take if an individual or business approached him to say that they wanted to transact business as long as they were granted immunity from criminal prosecution.
It is clear that the approach is intended to be business as usual, but that is not the new politics that I understood the Scottish Parliament to want to deliver. I encourage all members to vote for a system in which everyone in Scotland adheres to the law of the land and pays taxes. Thank you, Presiding Officer.