John Swinney: “But ultimately, Scotland’s constitutional future should be a matter only for the people of Scotland.”

My new Programme for Government sets out an ambitious agenda for post-school learning and development – from protecting free university tuition, expanding apprenticeships and delivering a new national skills plan, to supporting university…

The necessity for the policy remains absolutely the same.

I am pleased we have now got 11 of these centres up and running, and we are going to expand the programme to 40.

We are working to try to ensure the proposals we bring forward are strong and robust and they can deliver the assistance we want to see in place.