SCOTTISH Labour has called for the Commons Scottish Affairs Committee to investigate the collapse of City Link, which resulted in redundancies across Scotland.
Margaret Curran, the Shadow Scottish Secretary, whose Glasgow East constituency is home to the parcel delivery firm's largest depot in Scotland, has written to her colleague Ian Davidson, the committee chairman, calling for an investigation.
She was joined by backbencher Pamela Nash whose constituents have also faced redundancy at the City Link depot at Eurocentral. The MP for Airdrie and Shotts, who is a member of the committee, will raise the issue at its meeting later today.
Katy Clark, the Labour MP for North Ayrshire and Arran, has already called on the Commons Business Committee, of which she is a member, to investigate the collapse of City Link, which had more than 2700 staff across the UK, including more than 100 in Scotland.
Last night, Ms Curran said: "My first priority is to make sure the workers who have been made redundant get the support they need. They have faced awful treatment; they found out that the company was in trouble on Christmas Eve and they were made redundant on Hogmanay."
She added: "We need to get to the bottom of exactly what happened at City Link. No stone should be left unturned. That is why I have written to the Chair of the Scottish Affairs Committee asking for a full investigation and why I have asked members of the Committee to visit my constituency next week to speak with the workers and trade unions."
City Link's administrators, Ernst and Young, announced 2356 job losses on New Year's Eve after rejecting an unnamed consortium's last-minute offer to save the company.
Yesterday, it was announced they had sold more than £1m of City Link's assets to rival firm DX Group.
Last week, Jon Moulton, founder of Better Capital, which ran City Link, denied the firm's collapse had been mishandled, insisting the timing could not have been avoided.
City Link was bought by Better Capital for £1 in April 2013 but the administrators said the £40m the investment company had put into the firm was not enough to turn it around.
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