First Minister stands accused of wasting staff’s time after he misled Scottish Parliament on renewables
Humza Yousaf tried to cover up a misleading statement to the Scottish Parliament by getting a team of his civil servants to “engineer” statistics to justify it, it has been alleged.
Mr Yousaf wrongly told First Minister’s Questions on June 22 that Scotland has the “majority of the renewables and natural resources” in the UK, when it only has around a quarter.
Liam Kerr, a Scottish Tory MSP, immediately challenged this claim and Scottish Government documents released under the Freedom of Information Act disclosed that officials confirmed that afternoon the correct figure was 26 per cent.
However, rather than him apologise and admit his error to parliament, Mr Yousaf’s civil servants then set about trying to find a different calculation that could be used to justify his claim.