Dr. Olive McCarthy:

The report about the co-operative development unit, CDU, in Glasgow, the name of which I am not sure about, points to the fundamental role that was played by the CDU in that context. However, that city council appears to have designated the city as a co-operative city so it is very much a root and branch feeling. The bigger culture around co-operatives that Dr. Carroll referred to earlier certainly seems to have played an important role even though that report acknowledges that a large proportion of the co-operatives there are actually credit unions but there has been a good deal of recent development of new co-operatives in Glasgow which they are putting down to the existence of that co-operative development unit.