A Scottish parliamentary committee has warned the National Gallery after it was disclosed that the museum had used money allocated for buying art to cover running expenses. “The committee launched hearings this spring after it emerged that in 2002-3 and 2003-4, first £400,000 and then another £1.15 million was diverted from the galleries’ acquisitions fund for buying new art to running costs. Without it, the galleries would have run up a combined deficit of over £1 million.”