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However, there is evidence—from more than one country now—of a growth advantage for BA.2 compared with the main omicron variant, which may mean that it is more transmissible.
Questions and Answers
Date lodged:
3 September 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that paid-for visits at private health clinics in the first quarter of the year were at the highest level recorded in a single quarter.
Questions and Answers
Date lodged:
13 September 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the Scottish Prison Service regarding supporting and enabling families of prisoners to have better access to visiting their loved ones while they are in prison.
However, Christine Grahame, felt that, if the bill’s provisions were included in the existing code, they would “get lost in translation”—earlier, she compared the code to “War and Peace”—and would be diluted and would not be as effective.
It would also improve targeting of the reduction, with 51% of households in water poverty receiving it compared to just 25% of those under the default take-up scenario. 5.31 Even under full take-up, water poverty is not eradicated, highlighting ongoing targeting challenges.