Cabinet Secretary Simon Case confirmed he was looking into the Scottish government’s spending on independence.
Speaking to the House of Lords Constitution Committee on Tuesday, Simon Case said that he and his colleagues were “looking at some of these specifics” around taxpayers’ money being spent on Scotland’s independence strategy.
The question about funding for the Scottish minister for independence Jamie Hepburn and his team of 20 civil servants, whose work focuses on Scotland’s constitutional future and independence, came from Lord George Foulkes.
A member of the Scottish Labour Party, Mr. Foulkes suggested that it would be worrying and unusual if civil servants paid for by the taxpayer were “effectively supporting ministers who want to break up the United Kingdom.”…