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Fergus Ewing is ‘un-ministerial’, says civil service union
The rural economy secretary, Fergus Ewing, has been criticised for "an abdication of responsibility" and as "very un-ministerial" by a civil service trade union.
Seal shooting by fish farms to be banned to save exports to US
The Scottish Government is going to ban the fish farming industry from shooting seals to save a £180 million export business to the US, The Ferret can reveal.
Claim Holyrood meets once a week during lockdown is false
Scottish Parliamentary records demonstrate that business is being conducted in both the debating chamber and in committees on a far more frequent basis, despite the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions.
Fergus Ewing attacked over 25 meetings with fish farm firms
The rural economy secretary, Fergus Ewing, has been accused of breaching the ministerial code by failing to record 25 meetings with the fish farming industry.
Do not give Ineos £500m Covid bail-out, say campaigners
Over a hundred campaigners are asking the Scottish and UK governments not to bail out the petrochemical giant, Ineos, during the coronavirus crisis.
Loopholes let MSPs declare ‘arbitrary’ share values
Critics have called for the rules to be reformed so that MSPs are forced to disclose the true value of their holdings in private companies
MSPs reject Scottish Government curbs on freedom of information rights
The Scottish Government has been forced to withdraw all the emergency relaxations it made to freedom of information (FoI) law in April.
Information law must be toughened to prevent evasion, say MSPs
MSPs are recommending a new law requiring Scottish Government meetings to be minuted to prevent any “deliberate attempt” to evade freedom of information rules.
“Wholesale slaughter”: around 100 beavers shot in Tayside
Farmers and landowners have killed around a hundred wild beavers in Tayside in a cull condemned as "sickening" and "shameful" by campaigners.