"MINISTERS spent almost £500,000 promoting Scotland in the United States during last year's Tartan Week celebrations - a huge rise on the £30,000 spent in 2003.
Tom McCabe, the finance minister, said last night that £480,000 was spent on Tartan Week celebrations in the US in 2005 - 140 per cent more than the £200,000 spent in 2004 and 16 times more than the £30,000 spent in 2003.
A spokesman for the Scottish Executive defended the increase in spending by saying yesterday: "Expenditure has increased as the scale of Tartan Week and our involvement have increased - it has been getting bigger every year."
It may have been getting bigger but the search engine of the New York Times reveals that, from 1981 to now, Tartan Week is getting absolutely no coverage in the foremost newspaper in the Big Apple.
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