Westminster shrugs off liability in event of bottle scheme failure
Senior figures at Westminster are confident that compensation claims will not land at the UK government’s door should the SNP-Green’s controversial deposit return scheme fail.
Hundreds of millions of pounds have been invested in the recycling project, which the Scottish minister responsible for rolling it out warned may collapse without Westminster agreement in a week’s time.
There are financial worries about Circularity Scotland, which was set up to run the scheme, with uncertainty over whether it will be exempt from competition laws set under the UK Internal Market Act. The agency has said it has secured £100 million of third party funding for set-up costs.
At the weekend, Humza Yousaf, the first minister, suggested that the UK government would have to pay out any compensation
