Disgraced former SNP minister Derek Mackay has been invited to give evidence in person to a committee of MSPs investigating the delayed Ferguson Marine ferries.
Mackay was Transport Minister when the contract was approved to build two ferries at the Port Glasgow shipyard.
He resigned from the cabinet in 2020 after it emerged he had sent hundreds of messages to a 16-year-old schoolboy, and he stepped down as an MSP at the end of the parliamentary term in 2021.