Question reference: S1W-01559
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 14 September 1999
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Current status: Answered by Henry McLeish on 13 October 1999
Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make representations to Her Majesty's Government to ascertain exactly when they had information which indicated that Viasystems intended closing its Borders operations and whether it can confirm that members of Scottish Borders Enterprise board of directors knew of the closure plans as early as December 1997.
Answer
Officials in the then Scottish Office, in Locate in Scotland, and from Scottish Borders Enterprise maintained close contact both with Exacta Systems, and with Viasystems after their acquisition of the company. I understand that the Scottish Office was first informed of the company's closure plans on 29 September 1998.Scottish Borders Enterprise Board have confirmed that they had no knowledge of the closure plans by Viasystems in December 1997.