Seminar Commentaries/Transcripts 2009-2013 (All files are in PDF format)

2013

29 January 2013 Geoff Aitkenhead (Scottish Water), Peter Reekie (Scottish Futures Trust) & Ken Gillespie (Morrison Construction)

2012

13 November 2012 Patrick Honohan

22 October 2012 Sir Ian Byatt - Hume Annual Lecture 2012

16 October 2012 John Kay

4 October 2012 Robert Black

6 June 2012 David McAllister

8 March 2012 John Kay click here for a link to Kay's interim report

28 February 2012 Paul Johnson

2 February 2012 John Swinney

2011

14 November 2011 Peter Reekie and Professor Dieter Helm

26 October 2011 Danny Gabay and Erik Britton

31 August 2011 The Rt Hon Michael Moore MP

1 June 2011 Professor Brian Main

19 May 2011 Hume Annual Lecture The Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP

20 April 2011 Main Speaker: Blair Jenkins, Panel: Atholl Duncan; Iain MacWhirter; Philip Schlesinger

1 March 2011 Sir John Grant, Prof Drew Scott, Dr Rory O'Donnell

2010

25 October 2010 Carl Emmerson, IFS with Professor David Bell  

18 October Prof Danny Blanchflower with Professor David Bell

11 October 2010 Prof Neil Shephard and Sir Andrew Cubie

27 April 2010 Willem Buiter

2009

25 November 2009 Martin Wolf

Secretary of State's Key Sector Seminars

5 November 2009 Allan Burns, Chairman Scotland Food and Drink, Paul McLaughlin CE, Scotland Food and Drink and Ian Curle, CE, Edrington Group

N.B. No commentary available for 5 November event

22 October 2009 Benny Higgins, Tesco Personal Finance, Ben Thompson, Reform Scotland and Sir Sandie Crombie, Standard Life

7 September 2009 Jim McColl, Clyde Blowers and Calum Paterson, Scottish Equity Partners

2 July 2009 Nick Horler, CEO Scottish Power

Spring Seminar Series 2009

18 June 2009 Sir John Gieve

5 May 2009 Will Hutton

16 April 2009 John Swinney

Hume Annual Lecture

23 March 2009 Frances Cairncross