First Minister Alex Salmond has called on UK Prime Minister David Cameron to carry out an investigation into how an academics work came to be misrepresented by the UK Treasury, after it claimed the start-up costs of independence would be £2.5bn. According to the Treasury, a newly independent Scotland would face having to set up 180 new departments at an average cost of £15m per department. However within days of the figure being released by Westminster, the academic on whose research the UK Government based its estimate, complained his study had been badly misrepresented and that the UK Treasury claim was misleading. The Treasury subsequently admitted its estimate had been a misbriefing.
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 19:55:47 +0000
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