The interim brag of a nationalised shipyard has been handed a £26,000 edifice and subsistence allowance aft being flown successful from Canada to instrumentality up the post.
John Petticrew was installed arsenic interim main enforcement of Ferguson Marine Port Glasgow successful precocious March aft David Tydeman was axed from the role.
Details unearthed by the Mail amusement helium has been handed a edifice and subsistence allowance of £25,620 for a six period play successful the role.
He has besides been provided with car prosecute for six months, though FMPG did not disclose the costs.
In addition, helium made an expenses assertion successful April for a £1,709 Air Canada system people formation and £537 subsistence during a travel successful March, erstwhile helium was a non-executive manager anterior to his assignment arsenic main executive.
John Petticrew was appointed interim main enforcement of Ferguson Marine successful March
Scottish Conservative transport spokesperson Graham Simpson said: ‘The SNP’s ferries ungraded continues to haemorrhage taxpayers’ wealth astatine an astonishing rate, arsenic betrayed islanders proceed to hold for the desperately needed caller ferries that are six years late.
‘This lavish expenses bundle for Ferguson Marine’s interim main enforcement volition instrumentality successful the pharynx of galore Scots - and it wouldn’t person been indispensable if SNP ministers hadn’t made his predecessor conscionable different scapegoat for their monumental incompetence.
‘It’s shameful that nary SNP heads person rolled for this nationalist scandal.’
Mr Tydeman had his declaration terminated aft informing of much delays to the declaration astatine the centre of Scotland’s ferries fiasco.
The Glen Sannox was primitively expected to beryllium finished successful aboriginal 2018, portion the Glen Rosa was owed to beryllium handed implicit by the extremity of that year.
The 2 ships are owed to outgo £360million, compared to an archetypal estimation of £90million, and the Scottish Government besides handed the erstwhile backstage relation of the shipyard a £45million loan.
After his appointment, Mr Petticrew told MSPs that determination are ‘challenges’ with completing the LNG substance strategy for the ferries by the planned people of the extremity of May.
Mr Petticrew’s yearly wage has not been disclosed. But his predecessor, David Tydeman, was paid £232,500-a-year.
The Glen Sannox is present owed to beryllium handed implicit by the shipyard successful the week opening 19 August pursuing different three-week delay.
The 2 ferries being built astatine the Port Glasgow shipyard are precocious and overbudget
In an update to MSPs past week, Mr Petticrew said challenges linked to the ship’s liquefied earthy state (LNG) propulsion strategy were the main problem.
In his regular monthly advancement update, outer to MSPs, Mr Petticrew said: ‘The LNG strategy has been well-documented arsenic the biggest situation we were facing since our past report.
‘It has proved adjacent much hard and has impacted the advancement successful different areas, namely the motor compartments.’
Mr Petticrew listed a fig of remaining challenges, which see acceptance trials and sign-off by information regulator the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.
The 2nd ship, Glen Rosa, was launched from the slipway earlier this twelvemonth and fitting retired enactment is expected to beryllium implicit by September 2025.
A Scottish Government spokesperson said: 'This fig does not bespeak existent oregon anticipated spend. It is the bounds connected what tin beryllium claimed for accommodation and repast subsistence implicit a six-month period, reflecting the information that the CEO volition not instrumentality to Canada wrong his six-month tenure.
'The interim Chief Executive of Ferguson Marine's remuneration bundle is successful enactment with the requirements of the Scottish Public Finance Manual.'
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