The Scottish Government is to pump an additional £200m of funding into its Affordable Housing Supply Programme next year, to help the construction sector’s recovery from Covid-19.
The success of the planned £2bn Scottish National Investment Bank could be undermined by inadequate capitalisation and vulnerability to political interference, the Scottish Government has been warned.
A new publicly owned bank is to invest £2bn over the next decade to make Scotland’s economy fairer and more prosperous, the Scottish Government has said.
Public consultation on the Scottish Government’s plan for a Scottish National Investment Bank has ended with a plea from a left-of-centre think-tank to give the bank a clear social mission.
