Alex Salmond and his ministers have finally published a list of the five-star hotels where they have stayed abroad at taxpayers’ expense after dropping their claim that disclosing the information would jeopardise their safety. They answered a Freedom of Information (FOI) request, tabled 15 months ago, disclosing they had spent thousands of pounds at luxury hotels in New York, Beijing and Tokyo. The Sunday Post reported that nearly 80,000 of public money on overseas hotels and subsistence for Mr Salmond and his ministers between 2007, when they took power, and last year. However, he continued to refuse to provide some details for “security reasons”. The information was disclosed after the Daily Telegraph won a lengthy FOI battle with the First Minister earlier this year over his stay with his wife in a luxury hotel suite during his trip to the Ryder Cup in Chicago. As with the Sunday Post request, Mr Salmond attempted to argue that disclosing how much public money he spent at the Peninsula Hotel during his 2012 stay would jeopardise his safety.
Posted on: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 11:31:13 +0000
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