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Audit watchdogs to pursue Transport Scotland over £250m trams payment

The convener and vice- ­convener of the Scottish Parliament’s Public Audit Committee are urging the Auditor General to authorise an investigation into Transport ­Scotland’s financial oversight of the Edinburgh tram project.

The move comes in the wake of ­figures showing that public money paid out to the project by the Government agency appeared to exceed payments due under agreed guidelines by up to £250 million.