Extra MEP expense

Sir – Another cost of becoming a new state in the European Union is the cost of the extra members of the European Parliament we’d have to have.

Small states in Europe have more MEPs than Scotland has right now. Finland, with the same number of people as us, has to pay for 13 MEPs compared to our six.

It would be part of the price of being a new state in the European Union.

At £1.7 million a pop, MEPs and their related costs don’t come cheap. But with more and more powers delegated to them, at least we’d have more votes. Not that an extra seven MEPs in a parliament of 766 members would make much difference.

Our extra seven MEPs would cost us another £12 million every year. Never mind! It’s only an extra £5 each for every home in Scotland. Every year. Andrew Dundas. 34 Ross Avenue, Perth.