Justice Secretary Keith Brown has been accused of providing “unsatisfactory and evasive” answers to a parliamentary committee looking into the overdue and over-budget Ferguson Marine ferries.
He was acting as Transport Secretary in 2015, when the contract for the Glen Sannox and as-yet-unnamed hull 802 was signed, but it was former transport minister Derek Mackay who gave the go ahead for the Port Glasgow shipyard to be named as preferred bidder.
A letter from Public Audit Committee convener Richard Leonard last month expressed disappointment at the lack of detail provided by Brown in an earlier exchange, with the Justice Secretary saying he has nothing further to add to his submission.
