Official accounts have revealed the continuing cost to taxpayers of running the Scottish Parliament, with the total put at £72 million last year.
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Telegraph on 14th Jan 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
THE Scottish Parliament building has cost taxpayers more than £9 million since it opened five years ago.
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Scotsman on 31st Oct 2009 (via news.scotsman.com)
TAXPAYERS have had to fork out more than £4 million in maintenance costs for the Scottish Parliament building since it opened five years ago.
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Scotsman on 5th Oct 2009 (via news.scotsman.com)
IT OPENED three years late, cost ten times the original quoted price and was blamed for giving devolution a bad name. Enric Miralles' £414 million Scottish Parliament buil
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Scotsman on 8th Feb 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
NEW security measures at the Scottish Parliament are set to land taxpayers with a bill of £1.8 million.
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Scotsman on 1st Oct 2009 (via news.scotsman.com)
Open Europe has today published a comparison between the cost of the European Parliament and the cost of the UK Parliament. On his Guardian blog, Michael White cites Open Europe’s finding that the European Parliament costs taxpayers £1.8 million for each MEP per year.
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OpenEurope on 4th Jun 2009 (via openeurope.org.uk)
A LEADING hedge fund manager has hit out at the Scottish Parliament as "a wanton waste" of taxpayer's money.
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Scotsman on 28th Aug 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
POTENTIALLY lethal faults were discovered on the Scottish Parliament's roof at a part of the £414 million building directly overlooking passers-by on the Royal Mile.
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Scotsman on 9th Oct 2011 (via news.scotsman.com)
SCOTTISH Parliament bosses are spending £223,000 of taxpayers' money to build a "triangular roundabout" as a security measure outside the Holyrood building.
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Scotsman on 2nd Mar 2009 (via news.scotsman.com)
SCOTTISH Parliament bosses could spend as much as £5 million on an extension at the front of the Holyrood building for a new security hall, it emerged today.
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Scotsman on 13th Mar 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 2010 has been tabled in Parliament this week bringing about changes in the law for the Scottish Parliament election
