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Scottish Enterprise blew £1.7m on adviser before running out of taxpayers' cash

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A quango increased spending on external business consultants by almost 1000 per cent to £1.7million of taxpayers’ money before running out of funds.Scottish Enterprise (SE) hiked its outlay on international advisers Deloitte from £151,124 to £1,657,566 between 2018 and last year.The bill emerged months before its chief executive Steve Dunlop was forced to admit the Scottish Government-funded organisation faced a humiliating financial crisis.SE, which is supposed to help businesses manage their cashflows, said Deloitte was hired to provide advice on a range of services including “business modelling” and “due diligence reviews”.We revealed this month how SE had been forced to freeze grants and cut internal travel and recruitment.Opposition

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