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THE Committee on Climate Change slated the Scottish government yesterday for its “concerning” plans to cut climate spending by almost 10 per cent.
Members of the independent board, set up to advise both the British government and devolved administrations, met in Edinburgh yesterday to share evidence.
Committee member Professor Jim Skea said that the budget cut was coming in capital expenditure on energy infrastructure, but added “we don’t have enough information on what actually lies underneath that and that’s one set of questions which we will be asking.”
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