In response, Cupboard Secretary Neil Grey insisted discussions had “intensified” between themselves, the UK authorities and main Commonwealth Video games figures and {that a} closing choice can be made “within the coming weeks”.
Nevertheless, he cautioned that there have been important points nonetheless to think about earlier than agreeing to deliver the Video games again to Glasgow 12 years after it final staged them.
“It’s exactly as a result of we perceive the potential advantages, in addition to the significance to elite sport in Scotland, that we’re proceed to think about this,” Grey mentioned at Holyrood. “Nevertheless, there are dangers that we have to backside out.
“It’s a brand new idea, it’s untested, the figures we’re being quoted are formidable, so we must be conscious of that.
“This isn’t a reproduction of the 2014 Video games. This can be a smaller model, with fewer sports activities over fewer websites, so subsequently there’s a repute threat in addition to monetary threat.
“Glasgow and Scotland have worldwide repute for internet hosting main occasions extremely efficiently so we want to ensure this idea is correct.
“Each passing day makes delivering the occasion more difficult and that is among the questions round threat, whether or not this may be achieved within the time accessible.”
