The flooding which hit parts of Scotland on Tuesday should teach important lessons for the future, Finance Minister Andy Kerr has said.

Inspecting the damage caused by floods in the Shettleston district of Glasgow, Mr Kerr pledged an investigation into why the area was so badly affected.

He pledged that the Scottish Executive and Glasgow City Council would do their utmost to help those hit by the floods.

However, he said the Executive would not bail out those who were without insurance.

Many residents were uninsured

"As an Executive and as the council, we can't be the insurer of last resort," the minister said.

"But that is not to say we are heartless.

"We are looking to work with the social work department and the department of work and pensions to ensure that all the money that can be made available will be made available."

The minister and deputy health minister Frank McAveety spent more than an hour touring the Greenfield area, where more than 57 families are still in temporary accommodation.

Many of the flood victims blame inadequate sewage or water drainage systems for the devastation.

Widespread chaos

But the council says drain cleaning work was carried out in July.

A spokesman said: "It was a freak storm with quite an overwhelming amount of water."

At the height of Tuesday night's disruption, which brought widespread chaos to Scotland's central belt, 1,500 people in 500 houses in Glasgow were affected.

Mr Kerr said the events underlined the need for a �1.6bn investment being made in Scotland's water infrastructure.

And he pledged that lessons would be learnt from what happened.

"We need to find out exactly what happened."

"It was a unique and dramatic set of circumstances, making it fairly difficult to predict."