Holyrood scheme now £16m cheaper than anticipated

The final cost of the new Scottish Parliament building at Holyrood has been put at more than £414m - £16m cheaper than first anticipated.

However, that is a small return on a project that has soared in cost over the original budget of £30m and which was delivered nearly two years late.

The figures were released in a final report on the Holyrood project. The report also added that Bovis Lend Lease, the construction manager for the scheme, would not face legal action for delays to the scheme.

However, presiding officer George Reid did state that legal action would be taken to recover the costs of a broken beam in the main chamber.

The chamber was temporarily shut after the displacement of a strut in the chamber’s roof in March last year. The debating chamber was delivered by Laing O’Rourke.