Murdo Fraser: “The murkiness surrounding the SNP government's relationship with GFG only continues to grow.”

If John Swinney is serious about finally reforming the public sector, then he needs to rein in salary costs which are continuing to spiral.

Ivan McKee as the minister responsible should come clean as to why these numbers have increased and if he is doing any work to bring staffing costs under control.

This is further proof of Scotland’s bloated public sector being completely out of control under the SNP.

The fact that the workforce has actually increased at a time when SNP ministers have insisted their would be reduction in staffing levels could only have happened on the nationalists’ watch.