The Scottish Public Audit Committee is calling for the country's government to improve the way it audits and monitors the cost of major capital projects, according to a new report. The committee has raised concerns following its findings on the Auditor General for Scotland's report, about the current arrangements in place by the Scottish government for reporting progress on major capital projects. The lack of audit trails and formal reporting mechanisms that would allow project managers and accountable officers to identify potential problems quickly, have been particularly highlighted. The committee is calling on the Scottish government to place more projects under a set of formal review procedures to make sure they are properly managed. It also wants the government to consider how it can make information on the progress of projects more readily available to the public. Committee convener Hugh Henry MSP said: 'We are concerned that the reporting arrangements for major capital projects are often inadequate and piecemeal in nature. 'It is important that the Scottish government has systems in place to determine whether publicly funded projects deliver the benefits they set out to achieve. The system also needs to pick up lessons learned from previous projects so that best practice can be spread and poor practice can be avoided in future,' he added.