Contractors in Scotland may have started to wonder what their future will be after the Scottish Referendum on Independence takes place.
Scottish people will be going to the polls in the autumn of 2014 to decide whether they want their country to be independent of the rest of the UK. The PCG was quick to take up the cause of its members are seek assurances from the Scottish Parliament that whichever way the result goes, contractors north of the border would not be disadvantaged.
Fergus Ewing, the SNP Cabinet Minister in charge of energy, enterprise and tourism, met recently with PCG members in Edinburgh. He was able to reassure them that the Scottish government would not turn its back on the contracting community. He said he wanted to know about the barriers facing contractors and explained that he wanted them to feel free to run their businesses.
He went on to say that contractors can sometimes feel isolated, but he wanted them to know that self-employed people were welcome in the Scottish economy.
The PCG delegates also spoke with shadow ministers are raised their concerns with them. Ken MacIntosh, a labour MSP and shadow minister for enterprise, said he would be interested in meeting up with Scottish PCG members and this should happen later this year.
Contractors can rest assured that the PCG is doing everything in its power to ensure that leading politicians in Scotland do not ignore the contracting community.
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