Westminster

Only the SNP will promote Scotland's interests at Westminster as the Tories confirm they will ignore Scottish seats if they win the General Election.

Responding to reports that Gordon Brown has refused to review the 1994 Chinook Helicopter Crash, SNP Defence Spokesperson Angus Robertson has said the families ‘deserve to know the full facts'.

Reports have emerged today that Gordon Brown used a secret stash of Labour Party money, which were never declared in accounts, to try and oust previous Prime Minister Tony Blair.

A YouGov poll shows that the vast majority of Scots disagree with excluding the SNP from televised leaders’ debates.

The SNP have seized on revelations that HM Revenue and Customs failed to answer as many as 44 million phone calls last year – 43% of the 103 million calls received - despite employing the equivalent of 10,500 full-time staff at a cost of £233m.

Plans by the UK Government to scrap attendance allowance for nearly 170,000 elderly and disabled Scots will be strongly opposed by the SNP.

The SNP has condemned an announcement by the Treasury confirming plans to close 130 HMRC offices with the loss of up to 1,700 jobs.

SNP Energy Spokesperson Mike Weir MP has called upon the UK Government to take action to increase the level of cold weather payments and extend them to other vulnerable groups in light of extreme weather conditions which continue to affect much of Scotland.

The SNP warned time is running out for the transfer of powers from Westminster to Holyrood as recommended by the Calman Commission.

Questioning the Scotland Secretary, SNP Westminster leader and Defence spokesperson Angus Robertson warned the UK Government over forces morale after a report by the Royal United Services Institute said that UK military personnel numbers are set to be cut by 20% by 2016.