To put this into context, the amount spent over the past 16 years is about the same as the annual revenue expenditure of a smallish local authority, or slightly more than the Scottish Government’s city and regional growth deal capital investment in 2025-26. 2 The Stockline Inquiry was a joint SG and UK Gov sponsored inquiry “the first joint inquiry to be held under the Inquiries Act 2005 (the 2005 Act) and the first to be conducted under the Inquiries (Scotland) Rules 2007”. 7 In 2018, the UK’s National Audit Office analysed the costs of 26 inquiries established and concluded across the UK between 2005 and 2018.