Hansard

5. Jamie Greene (West Scotland) (Con) Con

I will do my best, Presiding Officer. To ask the Scottish Government how much time and money it plans to spend producing an alternative to the GERS figures....

The Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Economy and Fair Work (Derek Mackay) SNP

I am sure that this answer will tone things down, Presiding Officer. The GERS publication explicitly states that it shows Scotland’s position within the UK ...

Jamie Greene Con

Never mind the relevance of supplementary questions—I am afraid that even that answer was not relevant to the question. I asked how much time and money civil...

Derek Mackay SNP

I will always expect the civil service to act in the professional and impartial fashion in which it acts. I dare say that our work will be of much greater va...

The Deputy Presiding Officer SNP

This is getting overrude and I am really not appreciating it. It is just not funny.

Derek Mackay SNP

I simply make the point that we want to have an informed debate on the future of our country. I have never challenged the impartiality of our statisticians. ...

The Deputy Presiding Officer SNP

We will preserve the calm with a short supplementary question from Kenneth Gibson.

Kenneth Gibson (Cunninghame North) (SNP) SNP

I bring peace and love. Laughter. Does the cabinet secretary agree that it is sheer hypocrisy for Tory members to criticise the Scottish Government for try...

Derek Mackay SNP

I agree that the spending of £5 million in that way would indeed be a waste of taxpayers’ money. We have been working on a fully informed, rational debate ab...