Hannah Mary Goodlad

The new policy is a real departure for the Government in terms of stepping away from giving local authorities total oversight and decision making power.

Whenever there is new projects or a new type of industry being developed, you originate many, many projects, then perhaps only 10% to 15% go through.

This waste heat could potentially give us an opportunity to tap into this, if we strategically think about where these data centres are located, to be creating district heating schemes.

It is essential to secure public benefits from this type of development, and I am clear that voices of communities that will be affected will be central to any considerations on data centres.

We must balance the economic and employment interests in developing data centres with national energy, climate and community wealth building ambitions, which are vital to our future prosperity, as well as the potential impact on local…

Data centres is a rapidly emerging sector, and planning has an important role to play in considering applications, harnessing economic opportunities, and finding solutions which align with our climate goals.

I don’t know about you but I’m pretty fed up of this opportunistic kind of politics.

I think we should be growing our population to 30,000 but then it comes back to infrastructure again, and tunnels.

I think that Shetland is the most strategic, most important and could have the potential to be one of the most influential constituencies in the whole of Scotland and at this current point in time, the whole of the UK.

There’s two things. There’s Scottish wide voters to judge me on, and I think that that's making sure that we have a budget process linked up with public sector reform.

Yes, I think they are.

I think we've outgrown our ferry service. I think we have outgrown the population that that can sustain, and also the industry that that can incubate.