Oral QuestionDepartment for Business and Trade

If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.

Tabled: 4 December 2025Answered: 11 December 2025

Asked by

Christine Jardine

Liberal DemocratEdinburgh West

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Business and Trade

Answer from Hansard

Blair McDougall

I am happy to join the hon. Lady in pressing for that action. It is a running theme that when we in this place vote to introduce more support, the money goes through to the Scottish Government but is not passed on to grassroots communities around the country. The question that she asks is the same as that asked by constituents in my area: where has all that money gone?