Aberdeen City Council has spent £1.5million dealing with illegal traveller camps in the past decade.

Figures released under freedom of information legislation show 2,868 illegal encampments have been set up in Scotland since 2004, with the traveller population estimated to total more than 15,000.

At least £13.6million was spent on dealing with the issue across the country over the same period.

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Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.