Scotland's Public Inquiries: Costly and Inefficient
Update: 2025-12-21
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Scotlands Public Inquiries Face Criticism for Soaring Costs and DelaysThe finance committee at Holyrood has expressed concern over the escalating costs and prolonged duration of public inquiries in Scotland. Since 2007, the total spend has reached nearly £260 million, with five inquiries conducted from 2007 to 2014 costing £42.6 million and six more launched since then, totaling £204.8 million. The committee, led by convener Kenneth Gibson, has called for fixed budgets and deadlines for every inquiry, with extensions requiring parliaments approval. The report also urges clearer guidance for ministers to launch inquiries only after exhausting other options. Four inquiries are currently active, probing the Covid crisis, hospital safety, child abuse, and Sheku Bayohs death in police custody, with a new one into the 2005 murder of Emma Caldwell starting this month.
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