SCOTTISH Government officials asked not to receive board papers relating to Edinburgh's troubled tram project, despite providing it with £500 million in funding, it has emerged.
Correspondence between Transport Scotland and Tie, the council-owned tram developer, has shed new light on a decision to withdraw from direct involvement in the project in 2007.
It prompted accusations by Labour, which obtained the correspondence following a Freedom of Information request, that ministers had "asked to be kept in the dark" after their attempt to ditch the scheme was outvoted by opposition parties.
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