Human rights checks on firms seeking grants will be tightened following criticism those supplying states accused of war ...

Scottish universities have accepted millions of pounds from Chinese organisations with alleged links to the military, human ...

The UK statistics regulator questioned first minister John Swinney after The Ferret fact-checked a claim he made on Scottish ...

It took John Swinney two and a half months to secure a key meeting with Sir Jim Ratcliffe on the future for workers at ...

The future of Holyrood was called into question this week, after claims that more than a third of Scots wanted to abolish the ...

Care homes chains operating in Scotland have had hundreds of complaints upheld by inspectors in recent years, The Ferret can reveal. Data we obtained via freedom of information from the Care ...

The North Sea oil and gas industry is a central part of Scotland’s economy but it has a significant impact on the marine environment. Oil and gas licences continue to be granted in the North Sea, ...

Sources: UK parliamentary answers in 2024, 2023 and 2022. One incident at Faslane in 2023 was rated as “category A”, the highest risk rating used by the MoD. It has defined such incidents as having an ...

But PFAS take a very long time to break down in the environment and the human body, earning them the moniker ‘forever chemicals’. They have been found almost everywhere, from human blood to the Arctic ...

In the first nine months of Swinney’s premiership, 44 per cent of lobbying was by companies and business groups – higher than any other sector, including charities, campaign groups and trade unions ...

How is migration to the UK changing? Net migration to the UK – that’s the difference between the number of people who leave and arrive – was unusually high in 2023, at 685,000 people.. This was ...