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Contact with Scottish Enterprise regarding new investment bank: FOI release

Published: 6 December 2017
Directorate: Economic Development Directorate
Topic: Economy, Public sector

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

FOI reference: FOI/17/02599
Date received: 30 October 2017
Date responded: 27 November 2017

Information requested

Any correspondence (meetings, minutes of meetings, emails, letters, phone calls, briefs, notes or otherwise) between Scottish Enterprise officials and Scottish Government ministers, ministers' staff or special advisers on the topic of a new investment bank in 2016 or 2017.

Response

On the topic of the Scottish Investment Bank and the Scottish Business Development Bank. I enclose a copy of all of the information you requested in the format you asked for.

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested in relation to the Scottish National Investment Bank as there has been no correspondence between Ministers, Ministers Staff or Special Advisors and Scottish Enterprise.

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