MORE than £1 million of MSPs' pension cash is invested in big tobacco companies, despite Holyrood passing multiple anti-smoking laws in recent years, the Sunday Herald can reveal.
MORE than £1 million of MSPs' pension cash is invested in big tobacco companies, despite Holyrood passing multiple anti-smoking laws in recent years, the Sunday Herald can reveal.
MSPs' pension cash is being invested in tobacco companies
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Another half million is invested in the controversial mining giant, BHP Billiton.
Anti-smoking campaigners last night said the Parliament had a "moral duty" to disinvest in tobacco as it undermined public health policy.
The shareholdings appear in the annual accounts for the Scottish Parliamentary Pension Scheme (SPPS), which were published last week.
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