BBC NEWS: Scottish Socialist Party leader Tommy Sheridan said the report posed more questions than it answered.

He said: 'It does not answer two main questions that the Scottish public will have about the new parliament building.

'Someone made a fortune from this project - who was it and who let them get away with it?

'Are we seriously expected to believe that in selecting the Holyrood site that Donald Dewar, a member of the UK Cabinet, did not discuss the site with his cabinet colleagues?'

Mr Sheridan added: 'For all the cost and grandeur of our new Scottish Parliament building the biggest scandal is that it does not have the powers it needs to change the lives of the people of Scotland decisively for the better.'