The cost of repairs to Scotland’s ferry fleet has “soared” over the last decade, new figures suggest.

A Freedom of Information (FOI) request by the Scottish Conservatives indicates that the cost of repairing CalMac ferries has tripled in the last ten years.

Total spending has now surpassed the £200m since the SNP came into power at Holyrood in 2007.

The figures were published in the same week that an emergency diesel generator on one of two overdue ferries at the Ferguson Marine yard was switched on successfully.

The vessels are significantly overbudget and have been hit by setbacks since first being ordered in 2015.

In the latest financial year, figures show that between April 1 last year and March 31 this year, a sum of £28m was spent on total repair costs for the CalMac fleet.

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