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Members will be aware that there will be a budget statement the first week back after October recess. The focus of today’s session is the cost crisis and its impact on the tourism and hospitality industries.
If the SNP and Labour were serious about their commitment, members of those parties would be supporting our amendment and would be doing something before the Parliament goes into recess. The UK Government is taking that commitment seriously; sadly, others are not.
The following table shows the dates of the Housing Options Hubs Events and lists those local authorities and organisations who were represented at each event, where available.
Since those measures were introduced, we have had a recession and a banking crisis, and it is clear that they have not delivered on ministers’ aspirations; indeed, they have actually made things worse.
The First Minister referenced stockpiles of PPE but, from staff on the ground, we know that they were inadequate and well out of date. The whole point is not to learn after the event but to learn beforehand, so that we put in measures to prevent the scale of death that we have witnessed.
Last week, our proximity app went live, and there have been 950,000 downloads to date. The objective remains the same—to suppress the virus to the lowest level possible.
To end my answer where I started, I am very happy to look at how Parliament contributes to a review of our experience to date on care homes, so that we can learn any lessons as appropriate.