Yousaf: Matheson didn't mislead

HUMZA Yousaf has insisted he was not misled by Michael Matheson over the cause of an £11,000 data roaming bill racked up on a parliamentissued iPad.

- CHRIS McCALL

But the First Minister yesterday admitted his embattled Health Secretary "should have handled the situation better".

However, the SNP leader again defended Matheson as a "man of integrity" as a possible motion of no confidence in him looms at Holyrood.

The Health Secretary admitted last Thursday that his teenage sons used data from his iPad to watch football matches while on holiday in Morocco - running up a roaming bill of almost £11,000 in the process.

Matheson initially claimed the device was used for parliamentary work during the family trip in December and early January.

But he later told MSPs he had recently discovered his family's involvement but did not initially disclose the information to "protect" his children.