The Scotland Office should understand that it needs to adapt to the change in politics north of the border, according to the chief executive of a leading business organisation.

Alan Wilson, who will step down from the Scottish Council for Development and Industry (SCDI) next year, said that he did not believe that “talk about devolution being an event and not a process is going to stand up to scrutiny for much longer. I think they are going to have to accept that it is a process, but that the process can work both ways.”

Wilson, who has run the SCDI for the past 12 years, described recent meetings with John Swinney, Cabinet Secretary for Finance, and Scottish Secretary Des Browne.

In an interview with Holyrood magazine, Wilson said: “It’s an exciting time with the new regime. I think there is, should I say, a breeze of change … I think that the Scotland Office are going to have to realise that they are going to have to bend with that breeze of change.”

Last month, Browne said in an interview with The Scotsman that there was no need for the devolution settlement to be reassessed.

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