Community council calls for Audit Scotland investigation into V&A overspend

West End Community Council has backed a call for Audit Scotland to stage its own probe into the projected £31 million overspend on the V&A.

The former Rangers FC chairman John McClelland has already been appointed to investigate the reasons for the spiralling costs and delays.

For months, however, the community council’s chairman Andrew McBride has been seeking direct answers and an explanation from Dundee City Council on behalf of the people of Dundee.

He has been unimpressed with the response from the local authority’s chief executive restating that Mr McClelland would be investigating.

At a meeting of the community council this week, he sought and was granted permission from colleagues to write to Audit Scotland and ask them to intervene.

“The community council has decided to refer this matter to Audit Scotland and did so in view of the chief executive’s unacceptable responses,” Mr McBride said.

“This is an issue of openness, fairness and accountability.”