Meeting of the Parliament 19 March 2026 [Draft]
The families are desperate for truth and justice, and they are the ones who John Swinney is forgetting. The Queen Elizabeth university hospital scandal is the worst in the history of the Parliament. Children and adults have died, and others have been left with life-changing injuries. Grieving families have been lied to, staff have been bullied and threatened, and the Scottish people have been consistently misled. The cover-up meant that lessons were not learned, and those mistakes have been repeated in Edinburgh and Aberdeen.
I have spent more than eight years with those families and doctors, listening to their stories, hearing their pain and trying to get them justice. Over that time, John Swinney and his SNP Government have sided with management and denied the problems.
I make a firm commitment today that I will publish all validation documents in relation to the Queen Elizabeth university hospital, do any repair work and build any new wards, including, if necessary, the cancer wards. Will the First Minister make that same commitment right now?