Giving less than 8% of fishing fund to Scotland deemed ‘ocean-going madness’

Alistair Carmichael MP warned it is ‘ocean-going madness’ to allocate part of the new Fishing and Coastal Growth to Scotland using the Barnett Formula (PA) - (PA Wire)

The food minister has faced calls to explain the “ocean-going madness” of spending less than 8% of a new fishing fund on Scotland.

Orkney and Shetland MP Alistair Carmichael pressed Dame Angela Eagle to say when she planned to look again at Scotland’s £28 million allocation from the £360 million UK-wide package.