To ask the Scottish Executive what its reasons were for allocating monies from its Cities Growth Fund only to the cities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen, Stirling and Inverness.

In response to the Review of Scotland’s Cities , the Cities Growth Fund was launched to provide a stable source of infrastructure investment funding for Scotland’s six cities as the keystones of a growing economy. The fund was allocated to the six cities not just because they include the four largest urban communities in Scotland but because all six are at the core of wider, mutually interdependent city-regions which play a vital strategic role in Scotland’s economic and social development.