Scottish Conservative MSP Murdo Fraser called on ministers to confirm when they would publish the documents.<\/p>\n
“This unprecedented step from the information commissioner comes after the SNP have shamefully and repeatedly refused to comply with his deadlines for releasing these files,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It sums up John Swinney’s approach to governing which is characterised by an addiction to secrecy and cover-up.<\/p>\n
“They are clearly more interested in protecting their own reputation and squandering taxpayers’ money rather than doing the right thing.”<\/p>\n
Labour’s deputy leader in Scotland, Jackie Baillie, said the SNP were taking their “culture of secrecy and cover-up to new levels”.<\/p>\n
She said: “This arrogant SNP government thinks it is above the law.<\/p>\n
“Not only are John Swinney and the SNP riding roughshod over transparency laws in order to protect their own reputations, but they are forcing taxpayers to pick up the bill.<\/p>\n
“Scottish Labour will follow the law, release the documents and put an end to the SNP’s Secret Scotland.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scottish Conservative MSP Murdo Fraser called on ministers to confirm when they would publish the documents. “This unprecedented…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-386087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}