Lib Dems top Holyrood league table for quizzing government

An impressive work rate by the Liberal Democrat MSPs, adding to the praise they are picking up for being the effective opposition in the Scottish Parliament:

Willie Rennie has claimed that Liberal Democrats have been shown to be the most rigorous in scrutinising the Scottish Government, after new figures revealed his MSPs asked more questions than their counterparts from any other party.

The most up to date statistics show that LibDems asked 2,416 written questions in the first four-and-a-half years of the last Holyrood term, translating to 483 queries each for its five MSPs.

Scottish Labour MSPs asked 13,019 questions, but as the party had far more representation in the Parliament, the average questions per MSP was 342. The Scottish Tories asked 201 questions on average each, while for SNP members, the figure was 38. [The Herald]