The under-pressure Green MSP has faced repeated calls to resign from her government job following the collapse of the deposit return scheme.
Lorna Slater is under mounting pressure to explain whether a £9m loan made to Circularity Scotland will be paid back if the recycling firm collapses.
It was set-up to oversee the DRS, the Scottish Government's flagship recycling scheme, but faces an uncertain future after the recycling policy was shelved this month. "The £9m loan from the government-backed bank raises serious questions about whether that money would be lost in the event of its collapse, adding taxpayers to the long list of people left out of pocket by the chaos wreaked by the Scottish Government.
"The investment decisions of the Scottish National Investment Bank are for them, they are independent of Government and they make their own decisions about that investment."
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