Jackie Baillie: “It is not right that rich executives are handed massive payouts such as these when people across Scotland are struggling…”

This is about, as far as the Government and the SNP are concerned, sweeping things under the carpet, nothing to see here, we have just to trust them.

Too often the SNP operates under a cloak of secrecy.

John Swinney and the SNP need to stop running scared and come clean about these allegations and back a full financial audit of the accounts.

Freedom of information laws provide much-needed accountability in that context and the FOI commissioner has been a powerful champion for transparency in public life.