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While awaiting the outcome of his latest application for asylum, he feared for his health if he was sent back to his home country as he would not get the medical aftercare and treatment he needed after such major surgery.
Our guidance from 13 March 2020 and 26 March 2020 emphasised that care home residents should remain in their rooms as far as possible and that routine visiting should be suspended.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 March 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the latest statistics on the number of deaths of homeless people in Scotland, which show that 231 people died in 2024, representing an increase of 40% since the data was first collected in 2017.
The Scottish Government states that consultation took place with stakeholders on the proposals for the SAT between 26 September and 5 December 2022, followed by a programme of stakeholder engagement meetings and site visits.
Table 12: Costs of easy access breaks (£m) – costs to the Scottish Administration: As per published Financial Memorandum on 20 June 2022: 2023-24 24-25 25-2626-27 27-28 28-29 29-30 30-31 31-32 32-33 33-34 34-35 £m £m £m £m £m £m £m £m £m £m £m £m Upper Estimate 10 15 20 25 30 35 37 37 37 37 37 37 Lower Estimate 10 15 20 25 30 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 Updated as per December 2023: Easy access breaks (Scottish Ministers) 2023-24 24-25 25-2626-27 27-28 28-29 29-30 30-31 31-32 32-33 33-34 34-35 £m £m £m £m £m £m £m £m £m £m £m £m Upper Estimate 0 5 10 15 21 26 32 34 35 35 36 37 Lower Estimate 0 5 10 15 21 26 30 31 31 32 33 33 Central Estimate 0 5 10 15 21 26 32 33 33 34 35 36 Reasons for Variances: • Updating estimates using the latest available data on carer population data and intensity of caring (as Table 10); • Uprating the unit costs from 2022/23 to 2023/24 prices; • Bringing the estimate for existing funding in line with Scottish Government easy-access breaks budgets for 2023/24; 42 • Increasing the number of carers to reflect the projected increase due to demographic change over the growth period; • Inflating the estimated costs from 2023/24 prices to nominal prices (in line with the approach in the rest of the Financial Memorandum). 79.