 That concludes the debate on people's right to choose, respecting Scotland's democratic mandate. It's now time to move on to the next item of business, which is an urgent question, and I call Neil Bibby. Thank you, Presiding Officer, to ask the Scottish Government what its urgent response is to the reported announcement regarding the closure of the Amazon guruk site. We are very disappointed to learn of the announcement made today by Amazon to consult on closing its distribution centre in guruk, and I know this will be a very difficult time for the workforce, their families and the local areas. The Scottish Enterprise spoke with the company today to better understand the situation and the issues involved, and I will be meeting with Amazon tomorrow to further discuss and understand better the decision they have made and its impact on the facility. I thank the minister for that answer, and I welcome that he is to meet Amazon tomorrow. The news today that Amazon is to end its 19-year association with guruk costing over 300 jobs is a hammer blow for Inverclyde and for the west of Scotland. Those workers were the unsung heroes of the pandemic. Those employees now face losing their jobs only a few weeks after making sure the rest of us got our Christmas presents. The Scottish Government is well aware of the challenges facing Inverclyde. This is a community that has lost major employers in the past. The consequence has been economic decline, deprivation and depopulation. Can I ask the minister what new steps the Scottish Government will take in response to this announcement, and how will the Scottish Government support Inverclyde council's social economic task force, which the minister is a member of, to minimise the impact of this decision and to attract other new jobs to Inverclyde? We will continue to work with everybody wherever we can to support further investment into Inverclyde across the whole of Scotland. The member is right to identify that I am a member of the Inverclyde task force. I attend that group and I am very keen to continue to contribute to work together with others that have the interests of Inverclyde at heart to attract as much investment as we can. He will be aware of the work that we are doing through the Clyde mission to support the activity in the area, work through the Glasgow city region deal and the investments that we have managed to attract to Inverclyde over the years that we will continue to do. For example, the diodes investment that I was very proud to be involved in landing that deal when it came to Inverclyde. I thank the minister for that answer and his commitment to continue working with Inverclyde council. I hope that we can leave no stone unturned. We have debated in the past taxpayer support for Amazon. This company has been a welcome source of jobs for Inverclyde and other communities but at some cost. There are real concerns about their employment practices, the impact they have had on our high streets and about their tax bill being a fraction of their profits. In light of today's news, can the minister commit to publishing in full the extent of taxpayers' support for this company and detail the full commercial relationships that the Government has had with Amazon for any provision of service to the public sector? Will he also tell us whether the Scottish Government intends to engage with Amazon going forward? Finally, would he agree that at some point the state maybe needs to treat Amazon with the same respect that it treats the people of Inverclyde and Scotland? I can let the member know that a total of £2,137,000 of financial support has been provided to Amazon and Gwrwp. The last support that was given to the facility in Gwrwp was in 2011 and that support stretched over the period 2005 through to 2011. The member knows that we take that very, very seriously. It is a central tenant of our national strategy for economic transformation. It is something that I personally am very keen to support across all the sectors that I work with. It is something that the Minister for Higher Education, Further Education, Youth and Employment and Training met with Amazon in September 2021 and made that the points and stress in his previous role as Minister for Business, Fair Work and Skills, the importance of fair work issues. In my most recent meeting with Amazon to look for how they can continue to invest across a whole range of activities in Scotland, it was very clear with them that the centrality of fair work to our approach to economic development in Scotland was absolutely critical. We leave no stone unturned to do what we can to support the people of Inverclyde and the people at work in Amazon Gwrwp at this time. We continue, as always, to look for further investment and to continue to stress the absolute critical importance of fair work practices. I speak in place of my Inverclyde colleague, Stuart McMillan, whose mother sadly passed away this morning. Nevertheless, his staff and Ronnie Cowan MP met with Amazon Management this afternoon, and some of the 300 strong workforce are my own constituents. Amazon today claimed that the Gwrwch facility is one of its older sites and questioned its suitability and viability. Those concerns have never been raised directly with the local MSP or MP on past site visits. I am pleased that the minister will meet the company tomorrow. Can he advise whether he will facilitate talks between the landlord of the site and Amazon to see what improvements or investments can be made at the site to prevent closure and ensure that the Gwrwch site will continue to be a part of Amazon? I thank the member for that question for raising that issue. As indicated, we will leave no stone unturned to understand what is possible to be able to save the facility at Gwrwp. If the member or Stuart McMillan has information that would be helpful in that regard, then any other member indeed does be very keen to receive that before my meeting with Amazon tomorrow morning or even falling on from that. If there are opportunities where further investment can be made to get the site to a position where it is in Amazon's view contributing to its operational footprint, then I would be very keen to explore those to any level of detail required. As a Greenock resident and someone who has been to the Amazon site, I know how much of a blow today's news will come to them, their families and the entire community. Inverglide is resilient and will survive any economic challenges it faces, but this is such a major local employer that will surely have a devastating impact. I ask the minister if he might give serious consideration to the set-up of an immediate bespoke multi-agency task force, which will bring together Amazon, the local authority, Governments and other public bodies agencies and political parties to sit round the table and see what can be done in the immediate to support the people of Inverglide. There is precedent for this, as he knows, with Texas Instruments, and I think that it would be a very positive way to get everyone in the room together. The member will be aware that we already have the Inverglide task force in operation. If I was an initiative that was started locally and invited out to myself and others to be part of that group and I am delighted to be able to work with them, I think that forum which we will be meeting again very shortly in the next few weeks will be the best place where we can have that discussion about what can be done and if that group decides that there is a need for a subset of that group to have detailed discussions on this and I will be happy to be part of that. I would rather work that through the task force that is already in place rather than set up a separate group at this stage. I think that it is the most effective way to use the mechanisms that are already there to take that forward. Of course, I will be aware that the Scottish Enterprise and the PACE initiative are already working to engage with the business to see what support can be offered to employees should the business decide to follow consultation to close the facility. I am very grateful. I associate myself with the comments of my regional colleague Neil Bibby in this urgent question. The impact of the closure of Amazon on the local economy in Inverglide cannot be underestimated and it is a huge concern to local people. As we have already heard, the issue raises broader concerns about how public money is used and, indeed, Amazon failing in its moral obligations to provide safe, stable and well-remunit employment to the people of Inverglide. Given what the minister says about leaving no stone unturned in order to try to protect a future for the site, however, it is clear that Amazon is suggesting that people will be redeployed. That does not seem likely. What discussions has he had with West College Scotland, Skills Development Scotland and others about retraining and reskilling people in Inverglide to have well-paid and secure jobs? As I have said, the financial support from the Scottish Government that went into the Amazon guruk site was over the period 2005 through to 2011. That was the last support that was made to that site. As I said, I am very happy to engage with anyone who can come forward with solutions or where we can work together to facilitate support for the site to secure the future of it. My colleague Minister for Skills is engaged on an on-going basis in programmes across the country to make sure that we upskill people in Inverglide and elsewhere to take advantage of the many opportunities that are being created in all parts of Scotland. Of course, a whole range of sectors, and as part of the discussions around that particular facility, I would be quite happy to engage with the local college and others as required. Amazon is a monumentally profitable company. Its founder, Jeff Bezos, is the definition of corporate greed. It is also infamous for its hostility towards its own workers when they try to organise through trade unions. Can I ask the minister if he will engage with unions such as the GMB, for whom a number of the workers at the guruk site hold membership? I am very happy to engage with the GMB and include them in discussions on how we look for ways to find a secure future for the Amazon guruk site. Our message to Amazon has been relentless and clear that we support the fair work agenda that is absolutely central to our economic policies as a Government. We are always impressed by the importance of that and raise any issues that are raised with us in that regard. We are not treating workers fairly across any of their sites to make sure that they understand how important those issues are to the Scottish Government.