19 April 2022

17 May 2022

Please provide information on grants, public money, financial assistance, and other support to the following list of nineteen companies since 2009:

The Scottish Salmon Company, Lighthouse Caledonia, Sopica Partners, the Charlotte Square Collection, Fordell Estates, Corran Properties, Scottish Seafood Investments, Northern Link, Associated Seafoods, Loch Fyne Oysters, Moray Seafoods, Lossie Seafoods, RR Spinks & Sons, ASL Buckie, Farm Originals, LLF Financial, Pride of Scotland, Ardyne Organic Farms and Ardyne Estates.

As part of Scottish Enterprise’s remit, we provide funding for businesses to enable growth that helps create high-quality jobs and investment opportunities. This can take the form of early-stage equity co-investment, loan funding and grant support. Investing public funds comes with a high degree of due diligence and we have robust processes and criteria that must be met by companies seeking our financial support.

Scottish Enterprise confirms it has made no investments in the nineteen companies listed. A review of our finance systems identified grant payments made to four of the companies on your list for the period January 2009 to April 2022, namely Loch Fyne Oysters Ltd, The Scottish Salmon Company, Lighthouse Caledonia and Lossie Seafoods Ltd.

Appendix A (PDF, 91kb)