Actions to Deliver a Sustainable Economic Growth

As an amendment to motion S4M-04045 in the name of John Swinney (Actions to Deliver a Sustainable Economic Growth), leave out from "supports" to end and insert “commends the UK Government’s approach to creating growth and reducing unemployment; notes that its economic recovery plan is backed by the IMF, OECD, Bank of England, CBI, Institute of Directors and British Chambers of Commerce; appreciates that, in the face of the eurozone crisis, the UK Government’s fiscal plan has seen market interest rates reach record lows while those of other European countries have hit record highs and has seen the UK rise from 10th to 8th in the World Economic Forum’s global competitiveness survey; recognises the 906,000 new private sector jobs created since 2010, and believes that the Scottish Government should use the significant number of devolved levers for economic growth that it currently has to help business and promote growth rather than endlessly complain about other powers that it desires.”