Stephen Kerr: “Ministers must stop dithering, shut these loopholes and ensure public money is spent supporting victims - not criminals.”

Freedom of information laws are there to protect the public’s right to know, yet the nationalist Government repeatedly failed to comply with the commissioner’s decision and deadlines.

The SNP have weakened deterrence, piled pressure on to our police and repeatedly put the interests of offenders ahead of victims.

This is yet another insult to taxpayers and another indictment of the SNP's broken justice system.

The SNP's savage cuts to police budgets have weakened frontline policing, yet they still expect them to do their jobs with one hand tied behind their backs.