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will be an enormous increase in energy bills, as electricity is three times more expensive and currently dual fuel users consume around six times the quantity of gas compared to that of electricity.

A 250 per cent increase in fuel bills will bring massive austerity to the Scottish economy leading to a huge increase in the number of households in fuel poverty. Has Mr A. Wilson factored in such a scenario to his growth report ?

IAN MOIR Queen Street, Castle Douglas officials would be prepared to undertake fact-finding missions to the Far East if they thought that this would enable the city to recruit appropriate traders and no doubt Edinburgh Zoo would be prepared to lend out their panda if it would add verisimilitude to such an event. JOHN EOIN DOUGLAS Spey Terrace, Edinburgh I read that there is dissatisfaction that Kezia Dugdale is in “the jungle” and that her agent states there is no need to worry, as there are six other MSPS to look after the interest of her constituency in Fife.

I have no worries about Kezia’s sojourn in the jungle; however, I do worry that we need seven MSPS to look after 273,456 constituents while two MPS can do the same job at Westminster.