Environment
Scottish Enterprise urged to rule out ‘damaging’ deep sea mining
Environmental campaigners have called on the Scottish Government's economic development agency not to spend taxpayers' money subsidising a new form of underwater mining.
Scottish Enterprise
Arms trade, International
Export licence system lets ‘illegal’ arms sales to Saudi Arabia continue
Bombs and missiles will still be exported to Saudi Arabia under a secretive licensing system despite a court ruling that UK arms sales are illegal.
Arms trade, Nuclear weapons
Private US arms firms bid for Navy training contract at Faslane nuclear base
American multinationals Raytheon and Lockheed Martin are bidding for a lucrative Ministry of Defence training contract at Faslane.
Arms trade, International, Politics
Concerns over Scottish Enterprise grants to Hong Kong tear gas firm
Concerns raised with the Scottish Government over its relationship with an arms company that sold Hong Kong tear gas apparently used by police during clashes with protestors.
Arms trade
Firms’ human rights records checked by Scottish Enterprise
Dozens of companies have undergone human rights checks by Scottish Enterprise following concerns over public money being awarded to arms firms through business grants.
Arms trade, International
Scottish Government hands £3m to arms firms profiting from Yemen war
Arms firms supplying weapons for the war in Yemen that has killed 70,000 people were handed nearly £3m by the Scottish Government last year.
Arms trade, International
Pension fund investments in arms firms profiting from Yemen’s war worth £130m
Investments worth nearly £130m were made in arms firms linked to Yemen's conflict, which has left an estimated 70,000 people dead.
Finance, Politics
Scotland’s richest MSP’s firm pockets £185,000 in business grant ‘shambles’
Scotland's richest MSP is under pressure to return a £185,000 property development grant after bungling officials failed to claim it back on time.
Arms trade
More than 400 children killed or injured by airstrikes in Yemen
At least 443 children in Yemen have been killed or injured in air strikes over the past year, according to a leading global charity.