Most of what's done to Scotland is decided in rooms with no Scottish seat, so there's no vote, no division list and no story.
The receipts
The source list for this chapter, as the publisher maintains it. Archive links are given wherever a cited page could move or die.
- Glasgow's EMSA bid: brochure jointly produced by the Scottish Executive, the Department for Transport and the Scotland Office, circulated to EU institutions and member states from May 2002; maintained on the record in at least seven Scottish Parliament written and oral answers, 2002 to 2005 (Lewis Macdonald, Nicol Stephen, Jim Wallace, Tom McCabe), Scottish Parliament Official Report (scratchpad ch17-eu-agencies.md).
- Kenny MacAskill question and Nicol Stephen written answer, January 2004, reason given "robust competition from multiple bidders": Scottish Parliament Official Report, written answers (exact reference and verbatim wording to be pinned; see Verification notes).
- Decision 2004/97/EC, taken by common agreement of the representatives of the member states at Head of State or Government level, Brussels European Council 12 and 13 December 2003, seating EMSA in Lisbon and CEPOL at Bramshill in the same instrument on the same date: EUR-Lex (read in full during research).
- CEPOL's Bramshill seat fixed by Council Decision 2000/820/JHA, 22 December 2000: EUR-Lex. The "traded away" claim is thereby ruled out; see registers/discarded-claims.md (entry to be added).
- CEPOL relocation to Budapest, 2014, following the announced closure of Bramshill: Damian Green MP, letter to the European Parliament LIBE Committee, 29 January 2014 (primary).
- Scotland's coastline exceeding the rest of the UK's combined (figure to be pinned to a named survey before print; see Verification notes).
- Type 26 planning assumption of thirteen: Hansard, Peter Luff, May 2012; Scotland analysis: Defence, Cm 8714, October 2013, paragraph 1.54, p.38 (read in full). Clyde/Govan/Scotstoun build commitment: Scottish Affairs Committee, January 2013, and ministerial statements.
- Strategic Defence and Security Review, 23 November 2015: Type 26 cut to eight, five hulls redirected to a new class (later Type 31).
- Type 26 contracts: three ships, £3.7 billion, 2 July 2017; five ships, £4.2 billion, 15 November 2022. HMS Glasgow in-service target 2028. Type 31: open UK-wide competition announced September 2017; awarded to Babcock at Rosyth, 15 November 2019; programme slipped to end of decade, rated red by NISTA (scratchpad ch17-frigates.md).
- The Ferret fact-check of the broken-promise charge, September 2017, rated "Mostly True" (the charge was made by the First Minister on 6 September 2017; her words are not quoted or paraphrased in the prose): The Ferret.
- Great British Energy headcount: FOI response, 27 September 2025 (69 staff; 13 Aberdeen; 31 London); August 2026 position (over 100 staff, no published Aberdeen figure, roughly 46 of roughly 130 living outside Scotland) (scratchpad ch17-gb-energy.md).
- Juergen Maier: Manchester-based, two days per week, £114,400: Hansard, 22 January 2025.
- Dan McGrail Aberdeen-based; board meetings held in Aberdeen: Great British Energy published board minutes, 24 June 2025 and 23 September 2025.
- Capital: £8.3 billion total; £2.5 billion (30 per cent) in the legally separate Great British Energy Nuclear; commercial investment vehicle not launched as of 2026; first statutory accounts filed at Companies House 24 September 2026, NAO-audited, covering 10 October 2024 to 31 March 2026: operating expenses £14.2m (£7.9m staff), one investment of £5.8m in the Pentland floating wind project, workforce of 121 at year end with no direct employees (Companies House, Great British Energy Group Limited SC825539, filing history, archived 10 October 2026); Marischal Square headquarters unopened as of April 2026, "later in 2026".
- Barnett mechanism and classification: HM Treasury, Statement of Funding Policy, 10th edition, November 2023, Annex B, paragraphs B.5 and B.7 (exceptional UK-wide classifications; non-statutory; sticky once set); Institute for Government on the Treasury's "full discretion" and "Westminster's power to bypass Barnett" (scratchpad ch17-barnett-hs2.md).
- HS2 comparability factor 100 per cent for Scotland (0 per cent Wales, 100 per cent NI): Statement of Funding Policy tables. The £545 million additional consequentials on the northern-leg cancellation: see Verification notes (primary to be pinned).
- United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020, section 50 (financial assistance powers): legislation.gov.uk. Levelling Up Fund (£4.8 billion) and UK Shared Prosperity Fund (£2.6 billion) paid directly to Scottish local authorities, bypassing the block grant: National Audit Office, November 2023; Institute for Government.
- Ben Macpherson, "devious and undemocratic", citing COSLA's £1.9 billion UK-wide shortfall against a promised £1.5 billion per year: Scottish Parliament Official Report, 18 November 2021.
- Defence estate: Kinloss and Leuchars ceasing as RAF flying stations 2011 to 2015 (Nimrod cancellation, SDSR 2010); Craigiehall closed 6 March 2019; HMS Gannet search and rescue ended 1 January 2016 (UK-wide privatisation, caveat stated in the prose); A Better Defence Estate, November 2016 (Redford, Glencorse, MOD Caledonia, Fort George, Condor), closures delayed, reversed or cancelled by 2019 to 2022; NAO finding of 2 per cent delivered against a 30 per cent target, 2015 to 2021 (scratchpad ch17-defence-civil-counterexample.md).
- Army numbers: 2014 promise of 12,500 by 2020 (from 11,100); actual 2020 figure 10,440; Future Soldier (2021); Black Watch relocation dated 2029.
- HMRC closure of thirteen Scottish town offices (Cumbernauld, Bathgate, Dundee, Inverness, Aberdeen among them) into regional hubs, an intra-Scotland consolidation.
- Places for Growth: 23,249 roles relocated UK-wide by Q2 2024 against a 15,000 interim target (Cabinet Office, Places for Growth Data Tables Q2 2024, published 29 May 2025, Table 1.1; 16,061 by Q3 2023); Glasgow 1,166 FTE by Q2 2023; Queen Elizabeth House, Edinburgh, open September 2020; 1 Atlantic Square, Glasgow, open April 2022; Senior Civil Service 30.9 per cent outside London at November 2023 (formative evaluation) against a 50 per cent by 2030 target the evaluation judges will be missed, 33.3 per cent at Q4 2024 on the programme's own tracker, provisional (same data tables, Table 1.5); Scotland one of thirteen growth locations and
- Section 35 of the Scotland Act 1998 (referenced in passing; full treatment in the chapter that carries it): legislation.gov.uk.
- Full dossier; per-strand scratchpads ch17-eu-agencies.md, ch17-frigates.md, ch17-barnett-hs2.md, ch17-gb-energy.md, ch17-defence-civil-counterexample.md.
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