SNP Incompetence Hits New, Higher Heights
EXC: More than £450 million of EU money earmarked for key economic and anti-poverty projects is due to be handed back to Brussels by the Scottish government
— Kieran Andrews (@KieranPAndrews) June 1, 2024
Scotland is an outlier across the continent - and w/in UK - in failure to spend structural fundshttps://t.co/XVNdrcDN7M
Bombshell report by Kieran Andrews in the Sunday Times which highlights a new level of incompetence from highly paid Scottish ministers.
"SNP ministers have been accused of “negligence on a remarkable scale” after it emerged they are set to hand back £450 million of EU money they failed to spend on key economic and anti-poverty projects."Scotland is expected to return 28 per cent of the European structural and investment funding it received in the past six years having failed to allocate the cash.
"By comparison, Wales is on course to return 9 per cent of its money, England 6 per cent and Northern Ireland 2 per cent."
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