Outrage over London Olympic contracts
Calls have been made to balance the uneven distribution of contracts to Scottish firms for the 2012 games.
Scottish companies have been awarded just 17 contracts to work on the London Olympics despite bidding for 2,806. Their share of the contracts to deliver the 2012 games currently amounts to just 2 per cent of the total budget.
Another 35 companies have been awarded subcontracts, but the total amount for Scottish firms amounts to just £100million of a total £5billion. Business leaders and politicians have criticised the uneven distribution of contracts to firms north of the border.
London-based contractors have won more than a third of the entire work needed to deliver the Olympics in two years time.
The Scottish government has said that they want the £150million that the Olympic Games is costing Scotland back for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Olympic minister Tessa Jowell previously said that firms across the UK would benefit from the games.