Beyond the borders
13 September 2012
Self-government in Scotland has not heralded ‘buy Scottish’ procurement policies in public or private sectors, as John Givens discovers in the third article of our series on the effects of devolution
The bagpipes and drums may have played proudly when the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh opened two years ago, but business leaders north of the border don’t see devolution as a move towards any kind of purchasing parochialism.
Most executives in the private and public sectors want the country to be a global player rather than an insular economy reliant on...