Scots singer Lulu has posted a selfie with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon as the pair turned out to an event to support a pal of theirs.
28.03.2022 - 14:47 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Nicola Sturgeon has insisted she will answer "all and any questions" on the ferry fiasco at a government-owned shipyard.
Opposition MSPs last week called for the First Minister to give evidence to a Holyrood committee on how Ferguson Marine was awarded a contract to build two new ferries for Caledonian MacBrayne.
The yard in Port Glasgow was bought over in 2014 by billionaire industrialist Jim McColl and was handed the ferry work the following year despite concerns raised by civil servants over value for money.
The vessels remain unfinished and Ferguson Marine was nationalised in 2019 after the business was plunged into administration after years of delays and cost overruns.
McColl used an interview with a Sunday newspaper yesterday to claim SNP ministers acted in haste - and against the advice of ferry company CMAL - so the contract could be announced at their autumn conference in 2015.
He said the contracts were given “for political purposes” and “everything was about the optics and timing the announcements for political gain.”
Asked about McColl's comments today, the First Minister told LBC Radio: "It is absolutely, flatly, not the case.
"The procurement of the ferries - the awarding of that contract - was done in line with normal procurement processes with proper due diligence.
"And of course, Jim McColl signed that contract and it was his company that then became responsible for constructing the vessels.
"Clearly, the situation with the delays to the ferries and the overrun in terms of the cost is highly unsatisfactory and I would certainly not suggest otherwise.
"There is a lot of lessons being learned and of course there is a focus now the yard is in public ownership on getting those ferries completed as quickly as
Scots singer Lulu has posted a selfie with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon as the pair turned out to an event to support a pal of theirs.
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