More than £14m of taxpayers' cash was spent on credit card transactions by Scottish civil servants in a three-year period, including almost £10,000 on VIP airport upgrades, figures show
and her staff who used a firm known as Ace Handling, which fast-tracks clients through check-in and security before waiting for their flight in a VIP lounge.
A total of £9,898 was spent on the former first minister's airport services, both in the UK and across Europe, between September 2019 and June last year. The Scottish government said it cannot comment on the former first minister's travel arrangements for security reasons, but it normally publishes a spending log of all transactions over £500 on its website.
Purchases by senior staff also included yoga classes, nail polish and £4,182 for hospitality and hotel accommodation at the five-star Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire in September 2019 for a Scottish Women and Girls in Sport event.
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