Responsible defence spending... must mean ‘full transparency about where public money ends up so Scotland is not left complicit, even indirectly, in grave human rights abuses’.

Scots Friends challenge military spending

Responsible defence spending... must mean ‘full transparency about where public money ends up so Scotland is not left complicit, even indirectly, in grave human rights abuses’.

by Joseph Jones 11th September 2026

have raised concerns about plans to grow Scotland’s military industry. The plans were announced in the Scottish government’s new five-year ‘Programme for Government’.