By Gillian West

The UK government has been accused of treating the Scotland Office as a marketing department to promote the Union as UK taxpayers have paid millions of pounds to cover the bill from the Scottish independence referendum.

In 2010, when the Conservatives came to power, the Scotland Office had two communications staff costing a little over £108k but in the last five years costs have increased fourfold rising to £474k for nine staff.

Revealed by the SNP through Freedom of Information, the figures have sparked a row with the UK government highlighting that for the same period the SNP’s spending on ‘public engagement’ Read full story ›

Source: The Drum