Craig Hoy: “Scots will be concerned that dozens of taxpayer-funded devices have been lost or stolen in such a short space of time.”

The damning results in this survey show that SNP ministers have lost control of their ever-growing army of civil servants.

Their economic approach has the country stuck in a dangerous doom loop of ever-increasing taxes and low growth, which is resulting in far less tax revenue being collected than expected.

John Swinney was clearly ignoring the warnings from business leaders and economists that continually hiking taxes kills growth.

These bombshell figures expose the recklessness of the SNP making Scotland the highest taxed part of the United Kingdom.