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Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “New vessels for the Clyde and Hebrides: Arrangements to deliver vessels 801 and 802”
Meeting date: 4 November 2022
Craig Hoy
Okay. I had tidied it up a bit. Previously, I had used the word “fishy”. When I put that to CMAL, it said that it would not comment on that word but that it was “not normal”. Let us therefore use the term “not normal”.
The contract was then awarded to a well-known supporter of independence—a close friend of your party. There was the lack of the standard builders refund guarantee; key tender documents were resubmitted after the submission deadline; there was the presence of this cheat sheet that the BBC identified—
Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “New vessels for the Clyde and Hebrides: Arrangements to deliver vessels 801 and 802”
Meeting date: 4 November 2022
Craig Hoy
It was a pretty key meeting in the context of today’s meeting.
Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “New vessels for the Clyde and Hebrides: Arrangements to deliver vessels 801 and 802”
Meeting date: 4 November 2022
Craig Hoy
Where is the minute of that meeting?
Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “New vessels for the Clyde and Hebrides: Arrangements to deliver vessels 801 and 802”
Meeting date: 4 November 2022
Craig Hoy
But there was no recorded minute of that meeting.
Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “New vessels for the Clyde and Hebrides: Arrangements to deliver vessels 801 and 802”
Meeting date: 4 November 2022
Craig Hoy
But clearly the red flag that was raised continued and persisted.
Mr McColl has a view that, at a certain point, for your Government, it became about nationalisation at any cost, and you went on to write what is probably one of the biggest blank cheques in history. Was that the case? Was it about nationalisation at any cost? Had you fallen out of favour with him?
Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “New vessels for the Clyde and Hebrides: Arrangements to deliver vessels 801 and 802”
Meeting date: 4 November 2022
Craig Hoy
Others may want to bring that up.
Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “New vessels for the Clyde and Hebrides: Arrangements to deliver vessels 801 and 802”
Meeting date: 4 November 2022
Craig Hoy
You must have done a lot of research before you came here today.
Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “New vessels for the Clyde and Hebrides: Arrangements to deliver vessels 801 and 802”
Meeting date: 4 November 2022
Craig Hoy
He was on your Council of Economic Advisers.
Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “New vessels for the Clyde and Hebrides: Arrangements to deliver vessels 801 and 802”
Meeting date: 4 November 2022
Craig Hoy
I accept that.
Public Audit Committee
Section 23 Report: “New vessels for the Clyde and Hebrides: Arrangements to deliver vessels 801 and 802”
Meeting date: 4 November 2022
Craig Hoy
Yes. It says that minutes should be taken and meetings should be recorded.
