Gregg McClymont – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregg McClymont on 2013-05-08.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions he has had with officials in his Department on how the accounting officers’ conventions would apply to investment in Scotland in advance of the referendum on Scottish independence in 2014.

Danny Alexander

I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Treasury.

The UK Government is not planning for independence as it believes that people in Scotland will vote to remain within the UK. As such, the Government has made no assessment of the risk of losses to the public purse, and has no plans to change accounting officers conventions