George Foulkes: “Give a directive to the Scottish Government not to carry out work in areas that they are not responsible for.”

This is a great scandal, particularly since Swinney has constantly said there are no problems at QEUH. How can he continue?

They never seem to learn and they never seem to pay any attention to criticism or challenging questioning about what they are doing – it’s an unbelievable arrogance.

And secondly, they can say if you continue to do this then we are going to restrict the finances that you get and use powers to ring-fence the money we are giving to you.

Ultimately, the UK Government is responsible constitutionally and financially.