Letter: Alexander query

YOU published a short article online (30 July) on my Freedom of Information appeal in which I was attributed with the statement that I am planning to ask former Scottish Labour leader Wendy Alexander whether she and her campaign team "had understood that their evidence to the Electoral Commission would be kept secret".

The situation is a little more nuanced than that. Among the questions I am planning to put to Ms Alexander is why a politician who has had the good fortune to be granted a complete amnesty with regard to a criminal offence that she has committed should consider it "reasonable" that the public - who pay her salary and those of the officials who granted her the amnesty, and who in general are not granted amnesties when they break the law - should be denied all access to any information whatsoever about the reasons why her amnesty was granted.

DAVID FERGUSON

Beveridge & Kellas

Leith Walk, Edinburgh