EMEC dismiss MSP’s redundancy number claim

The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has refuted a statement made on the BBC’s Scotland 2015 last night, that they had announced redundancies for 25 per cent of their workforce in wave and tidal energy research.

The figure of 25 per cent was stated by Highlands and Islands MSP Mike MacKenzie during a debate on the programme. He said that he had been at EMEC on the day that the announcement was made.

An EMEC spokeswoman said today that they were not sure where Mr MacKenzie had got the figure from, stressing that the review into the restructuring of the organisation, which was announced earlier this month, is still under way.