Chamber and committees

On the infrastructure angle, to which you have previously referred, good quality infrastructure is critical to economic growth and to ensuring that business has some certainty and can plan. First, could you comment on the reports that, because of the new deal between the SNP and the Greens, some of the infrastructure planning to which the SNP was previously committed might be in jeopardy? Secondly, there was a report at the weekend that some money that the Scottish Government had been offered for road improvement infrastructure had not been used. Is that correct?

I understand that, cabinet secretary. I am just interested in whether, if the Greens said that one price of the deal was that one aspect of the infrastructure development might not go ahead, that could jeopardise any of those projects. That would be a big concern to many people, particularly in more rural areas of Scotland.

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