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Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Chamber
19 May 2022
Long Covid
Before I was elected to the Parliament, and in the early stages of my career, I was a journalist. I used to sit in galleries much like the one that we have in the Parliament, looking at the demeanour of ministers and trying to work out what adjectives I might use to describe i...
Craig Hoy Con Chamber
19 May 2022
Long Covid
I accept that the cabinet secretary has an army of spin doctors, civil servants and parliamentary draftsmen, and if he cannot submit a motion to the Parliament that conveys that point, that is his problem, not ours. The cabinet secretary wants to talk about England, so let us...
Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Chamber
15 Nov 2023
Scottish Ministerial Code (First Minister and Deputy First Minister)
The SNP Government rightly and richly deserves the wretched reputation that it has earned when it comes to its record on transparency. This secretive Government picks and chooses how and when it engages with issues of significant legal and public interest. It is self-eviden...
Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Chamber
01 Jun 2021
National Health Service Recovery Plan
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I congratulate you on your new role and I welcome the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care and his colleagues to their new positions. This afternoon, we have heard powerful speeches from members of all parties, but particularly fro...
Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Chamber
24 Mar 2022
NHS Scotland (Pandemic Pressures)
The cabinet secretary’s statement, like his previous announcements, has lots of words but very few actions. He claims that the problems in Scotland’s health service are largely down to pressures that are caused by the unprecedented number of patients who are in hospital with C...
Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Chamber
09 Sep 2021
Covid-19 Vaccine Certification Scheme
The coronavirus is the biggest threat that this country has faced in decades. The pandemic that it has provoked has made us challenge long-held beliefs about the way in which we live our lives, the role of the state, individual freedoms and the finely balanced relationship bet...
Craig Hoy Con Chamber
09 Mar 2022
Care Home Visiting Rights (Anne’s Law)
I must carry on. Today’s debate is not about the reasons as to why so many died in our care homes—that will be for Lady Poole’s public inquiry to determine—but we know that Common Weal described the situation in our care homes as “possibly ... the single greatest failure of ...
Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Chamber
01 Mar 2023
Scotland’s Hospitality and Brewing Sector
Pubs are at the heart of our communities: they bring people together, which helps to tackle loneliness and social isolation. Since Covid, however, they have faced unprecedented pressures. The latest figures reveal that Scotland has 4,569 pubs, which support 61,900 jobs. The s...
Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Chamber
15 Jun 2021
Women’s Health
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I welcome you to your place and the minister to her new position. The consequences of Covid will live with us for a long time to come, and nowhere will those consequences be more severely felt than in our health and social care services. F...
Craig Hoy Con Chamber
09 Sep 2021
Covid-19 Vaccine Certification Scheme
Patrick Harvie has been in government for one week and already the SNP’s army of spin doctors have got their claws into him. Let us be in no doubt that the Greens have traded in their tandem for a pair of ministerial limousines and that they have left their principles on the p...
Craig Hoy Con Committee
23 Sep 2021
Scotland’s Colleges 2020
We have not really touched on the state of the college estate. The 2019 report identified quite significant capital expenditure challenges with that. I have two related questions about Covid and digital learning. Do those challenges mean that we might see a shift in the landsc...
Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Chamber
02 Dec 2021
Covid-19: Preparing for Winter and Priorities for Recovery
As members who serve on committees of the Parliament will know, there is no doubt that Covid has put a massive strain on our public services. The Scottish Parliament and the UK Parliament have passed sweeping new laws that have given local authorities, health boards, the court...
Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Committee
03 Feb 2022
“Administration of Scottish income tax 2020/21”
Good morning. The report examines the impact of Covid-19 on HMRC compliance activities. It says: “COVID-19 has continued to have an impact on HMRC’s compliance and debt management activities. Across the UK, there were 29% fewer civil compliance cases opened and 26% fewer case...
Craig Hoy Con Committee
01 Mar 2022
Evidence
Thank you for that full answer. Obviously, any measures need to be not only necessary and proportionate, but legal. Last week, we considered measures on Covid passports—indeed, we will do so again this week, but thankfully in relation to the expiration of the present system. ...
Craig Hoy Con Committee
19 Jan 2023
Section 22 Report: “The 2021/22 audit of the Scottish Government Consolidated Accounts”
Going back to Covid and transparency, a huge amount of money was made available to support public services and the public through the pandemic; I think that it was £5.8 billion in 2021-22. Do you consider that the Scottish Government has done enough to respond to concerns abou...
Craig Hoy Con Chamber
31 Jan 2024
UK Covid-19 Inquiry
The SNP Government has told untruths. It has done so wilfully, willingly and to cover up the truth. To save its own skin, it spends the public’s money going to court to prevent the public from knowing the truth. It is secretive and manipulative. It puts Scottish nationalism ah...
Craig Hoy Con Chamber
23 Jun 2021
Coronavirus (Extension and Expiry) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
For the second time, I draw members’ attention to my entry in the register of interests in relation to rental properties in my name. I will briefly address the amendments relating to social care. I welcome the Government’s intention to allow provisions relating to reporting b...
Craig Hoy Con Committee
23 Jun 2021
Legacy Paper
Thank you, and congratulations on being elected as convener. From looking through the report, I picked up what I thought was a sense of frustration from your predecessor as convener, particularly in paragraph 4 of the foreword. It says: “We kept seeing the same issues again ...
Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Chamber
13 Jul 2021
Covid-19
Speaking after National Records of Scotland was forced to release data on Covid deaths in care homes, the First Minister said that the agency “operates in these kinds of decisions independently of ministers”. However, last week, we found out that former cabinet secretary Fio...
Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Committee
02 Sep 2021
Audit Scotland Strategic Priorities and Future Work Programme
Welcome to the meeting, Mr Boyle, and thank you for setting out your programme and priorities so clearly this morning. You mentioned Covid and your work on following the pandemic pound. The committee very much welcomes what you are doing, given that, as you have pointed out, ...
Craig Hoy Con Committee
02 Sep 2021
Audit Scotland Strategic Priorities and Future Work Programme
Anybody who turns on their television set will see the impact that Covid has had on our courts, schools and hospitals. To what extent do you anticipate that certain sectors, such as the NHS and the education and justice systems, have been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic? Wha...
Craig Hoy Con Chamber
09 Sep 2021
Covid-19 Vaccine Certification Scheme
Thank you, Presiding Officer. We have seen, time and again, how the Government has not handed back the powers: it keeps seeking to extend them, and it is confirming that it will not necessarily withdraw them. It did that in June for the powers that could have—Interruption. No...
Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Committee
09 Sep 2021
Section 23 Report
Yes. I draw the committee’s attention to my entry in the register of interests, which details that I am a member of East Lothian Council’s education committee. Good morning, Mr Boyle. I think that it is commonly and widely accepted that poverty and inequality are very stubbor...
Craig Hoy Con Committee
09 Sep 2021
Section 23 Report
Gathering the data and compiling the evidence of what has happened is one thing, but implementing a series of measures so that we avoid bad outcomes is another. It is not as if we are trying to compile the data in order to learn lessons should we see Covid occur again in the f...
Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Chamber
21 Sep 2021
Covid-19 Update
As the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care found out last week, pride comes before a fall. Given the scale of opposition from business and the public to the Government’s ill-conceived and unworkable Covid passports, why will the First Minister not swallow her pride an...
Craig Hoy Con Committee
23 Sep 2021
Scotland’s Colleges 2020
We have talked about the need for long-term financial planning and sustainability, and we have drawn some comfort from the Covid consequentials blip, which is obviously an operating surplus for this year. However, the Auditor General states in his blog that a significant numbe...
Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Chamber
05 Oct 2021
Covid-19 Recovery Strategy
The Deputy First Minister will be well aware that many of the problems that the strategy seeks to address predate the pandemic. Today’s strategy document reveals that Scots who live in the most deprived areas are “18 times more likely to suffer a drugs related death; four tim...
Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Chamber
07 Oct 2021
World Mental Health Day 2021
I thank Paul McLennan for lodging the motion, which enables us to highlight the upcoming world mental health day 2021. Almost every person in the chamber or watching at home will have experience of mental health issues or know someone who has suffered mental health problems. ...
Craig Hoy Con Committee
25 Nov 2021
“Community empowerment: Covid-19 update”
Welcome, everyone. There is one question that perhaps has not been answered. I want to use the closing stages to look forward and see how we can strengthen community empowerment. There are clearly still challenges, despite the huge and, at times, heroic efforts of the third se...
Craig Hoy Con Chamber
02 Dec 2021
Covid-19: Preparing for Winter and Priorities for Recovery
Super. I have just been in touch with the chairman of the community council, who has pointed out that there are just four working days until the decision on the hospital will be taken. She had not heard anything at that point. However, I very much welcome the fact that the ca...
Craig Hoy Con Committee
02 Dec 2021
Section 22 Report: “The 2020/21 audit of the Crofting Commission”
In your opening statement, you said that Covid was the cause of the problem, in effect. However, I am getting the impression that there was a latent dysfunction that came to a head during Covid. Is that the right way of characterising the situation?
Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Chamber
16 Dec 2021
Edington Hospital
Local health services are a vital part of local communities. That is why it is an honour to open this debate. The Edington hospital is at the heart of North Berwick, one of the communities that I am proud to represent. However, the cottage hospital’s in-patient beds and its mi...
Craig Hoy Con Chamber
16 Dec 2021
Edington Hospital
Precisely—that is exactly why so many local residents have been in touch with members for South Scotland and for East Lothian in respect of the matter. The hospital provides much-needed high-quality levels of care. Jane from North Berwick told me: “My Mother spent her final ...
Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Chamber
21 Dec 2021
Covid-19
Public health messaging remains a crucial part of the fight against omicron. Given that recent YouGov polling found that fewer than 2 per cent of Scots fully understood the FACTS acronym, how will the Government ensure that any new Covid guidance is communicated effectively? W...
Craig Hoy Con Chamber
12 Jan 2022
Mental Health and Wellbeing (Primary Care)
In response to Alex Cole-Hamilton’s intervention, the minister said that the delay in CAMHS is largely down to Covid and winter pressures, but the Government first said that it would address CAMHS waiting times in 2018, which predates Covid. Surely the issues are deeper rooted...
Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Committee
27 Jan 2022
Section 22 Report: “The 2020/21 audit of the Scottish Government Consolidated Accounts”
Good morning. As far as financial management is concerned, it has been broadly recognised that, because of Covid, the Government’s budget was going to be fluid and perhaps more complex. However, I want to look at last year’s underspend of about £518 million, which comes princi...
Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Chamber
22 Feb 2022
Covid-19
Yesterday, the First Minister announced the final allocation of Covid-related funding for businesses that have been hit hard by her Government’s restrictions in December. Despite that, many businesses are still being overlooked and have had little or no support. Will the First...
Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Committee
24 Feb 2022
Section 22 Report: “The 2020/21 audit of Scottish Government Consolidated Accounts”
I want to look at the transparency of reporting on the record amounts of money that were spent on the Covid pandemic last year and the year before. At the beginning of the meeting, you summarised the situation, and the fact is that record amounts of money—£10.7 billion more—we...
Craig Hoy Con Committee
24 Feb 2022
Section 22 Report: “The 2020/21 audit of Scottish Government Consolidated Accounts”
Looking at the overall levels of public expenditure in Scotland, including non-Covid moneys, I would suggest that we have seen record amounts of money and perhaps more complex arrangements than we have ever seen in the history of devolution. We have record spending, the levell...
Craig Hoy Con Committee
24 Feb 2022
Section 22 Report: “The 2020/21 audit of Scottish Government Consolidated Accounts”
If I can just return to transparency around Covid-related spending, Mr Marks, could you say what plans the Scottish Government has to be more open and to make clear links between the budgets, the funding arrangements and the spending on the ground in relation to Covid?
Craig Hoy Con Committee
17 Mar 2022
Section 23 Report: “NHS in Scotland 2021”
Good morning, Mr Boyle. As we know, the diagnosis and treatment backlog has got significantly worse because of Covid, but, in many respects, Covid is not its principal cause. Although NHS boards around Scotland are trying to tackle the backlog, it is, as you say in the report,...
3. Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Chamber
18 May 2022
Portfolio Question Time · Covid-19 Recovery (Hospital Restrictions)
To ask the Scottish Government what cross-Government discussions regarding the remaining Covid-19 hospital restrictions have taken place as part of its Covid recovery strategy. (S6O-01088)
Craig Hoy Con Chamber
18 May 2022
Portfolio Question Time · Covid-19 Recovery (Hospital Restrictions)
I thank Mr Swinney for that answer. However, on-going Covid restrictions in Scotland’s NHS are causing avoidable harm to patients and are restricting patient flow, which results in on-going pressure on waiting times. Does the Deputy First Minister agree that appropriate hospi...
Craig Hoy Con Chamber
19 May 2022
Long Covid
That is the story all along. He has been meeting people with lived experience and listening to them, but he has not been acting on what he hears. That condition is apparent throughout his Government. The Government says that it does not want a one-size-fits-all approach, but ...
Craig Hoy Con Committee
01 Dec 2022
“Scotland’s public finances: Challenges and risks”
You referred to IJBs. The briefing states: “The Scottish Government has requested that some funding which is currently allocated for Covid-19 in integration authority reserves is now used for wider Covid-19 purposes.” Is it appropriate for the Scottish Government to seek to ...
Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Committee
19 Jan 2023
Section 22 Report: “The 2021/22 audit of the Scottish Government Consolidated Accounts”
Good morning, Mr Boyle. Your report identifies a £2 billion underspend across the capital and resource budgets. Is that level of underspend reasonable? Is it reasonable to reflect and expect that the reason for a significant portion of that underspend relates to the Covid pand...
Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Committee
23 Feb 2023
Section 22 Report: “The 2021/22 audit of the Scottish Government Consolidated Accounts” and “Scotland’s public finances: Challenges and risks”
Good morning, Mr Marks. Will you reflect on Covid-19 support payments and the issue of fraud? In 2021-22, the Government allocated £5.3 billion in funding to Covid response activities. The estimate that we were working with for fraud and error equated to 1 to 2 per cent of tha...
Craig Hoy Con Committee
16 Sep 2025
Pre-budget Scrutiny 2026-27
There is the concept of bootstrapping, where small business owners borrow money from banks or family members, or remortgage their house, rather than finding more sophisticated ways to raise funds. I get the impression that, post-Covid, banks have been less open to lending them...
Craig Hoy Con Committee
25 Nov 2025
Scottish Public Inquiries (Cost-effectiveness)
There is a Scottish Covid inquiry and a UK Covid inquiry, so there will be some degree of duplication. There are also asymmetrical approaches taken, for example, in relation to grooming gangs at this point in time. Louise Casey recommended to the UK Government that it should c...
Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Chamber
27 May 2021
Covid-19
Will the cabinet secretary look into reports in today’s East Lothian Courier that suggest that residents are routinely being sent to vaccination centres in Midlothian and West Lothian, even when there is capacity in East Lothian? If that is due to a computer glitch, will the c...
Craig Hoy Con Committee
09 Sep 2021
Section 23 Report
Your report explains that improving outcomes for children and young people through school education requires the contribution of wider stakeholders—health, social work and the third sector—and that the Covid-19 children and families collective leadership group, which was estab...
Craig Hoy Con Committee
09 Sep 2021
Section 23 Report
The children and families collective leadership group was set up in addition to the Covid-19 education recovery group. How effectively do you think those groups, specifically the children and families collective leadership group, are in sharing and highlighting good practice? ...
Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Chamber
14 Sep 2021
Health and Social Care
Covid-19 has been linked to nearly 11,000 Scottish deaths, and one in three of those, tragically, has taken place in our care homes. Our thoughts go out to the families of all those who have died during the pandemic. The cost of cancelled operations, delayed diagnoses and the...
Craig Hoy Con Chamber
14 Sep 2021
Health and Social Care
I would like to make some progress, first. Drug deaths have tripled under the SNP Government, and waiting times for residential rehab regularly exceed a year. The chairman of the British Medical Association Scotland, Dr Lewis Morrison, says that doctors are exhausted and that...
Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Committee
14 Sep 2021
Minister for Parliamentary Business
If you take the route that appears likely, minister, this might be our final opportunity to question the Government in detail on the application and operation of the scheme. Could you say, for the public who might be watching, what specific data an individual will have to disc...
Craig Hoy Con Committee
14 Sep 2021
Minister for Parliamentary Business
Several previous Covid-related bills were considered in a very short timeframe, which is understandable, but will the committee have sufficient time to scrutinise any delegated powers under the coronavirus bill on compensation for self-isolation?
Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Chamber
15 Sep 2021
General Practitioner Services
The debate has shone a stark light on the problems that face Scotland’s hard-working and dedicated GP surgeries. Too many patients cannot contact their local surgery, let alone get an appointment with their GP, and when they get an appointment, too often, that appointment is v...
Craig Hoy Con Chamber
15 Sep 2021
General Practitioner Services
Thank you, Dr Gulhane. I will speak directly to GPs. We are not blaming GPs for not seeing enough patients face to face; we are blaming the SNP Government for saying that GPs do not have enough capacity to see their patients face to face. However, this is not just a capacity ...
Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Chamber
22 Sep 2021
Scottish Ambulance Service
My constituent Susannah Jackson, who has previously suffered a stroke, had a bad fall at home. An ambulance was called at 5.30 pm but did not arrive until 10.30 that evening. My constituent was worried and in pain. She was taken to Edinburgh’s royal infirmary, where she had to...
Craig Hoy (South Scotland) (Con) Con Chamber
30 Sep 2021
Autumn and Winter Vaccination Programme
On the issue of the Scottish National Party’s shambolic plans for Covid certification, very little has been said so far about how fraud will be combated. Can the cabinet secretary say how, in the absence of a photographic component, the system proves that the person who presen...
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Meeting of the Parliament (Hybrid) 19 May 2022

19 May 2022 · S6 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
Long Covid
Hoy, Craig Con South Scotland Watch on SPTV

Before I was elected to the Parliament, and in the early stages of my career, I was a journalist. I used to sit in galleries much like the one that we have in the Parliament, looking at the demeanour of ministers and trying to work out what adjectives I might use to describe it. Today, I would say: sheepish and squirming. We have waited months for a debate and an announcement from the cabinet secretary about long Covid, and it simply was not worth the wait. Promises have been recycled, money has been reannounced, past pledges have simply been polished up again, and there has been a shocking level of complacency.

Too many people who have fought to be heard and are suffering from long Covid are suffering the consequences, and are waiting for answers and solutions from the Government. SNP ministers must now finally get on top of the long Covid crisis, because the condition is affecting nearly three in every 100 Scots. If the cabinet secretary does not act, the situation will spiral out of control and will have very serious knock-on consequences for other services in Scotland’s NHS.

Last year in our policy paper, the Conservative Party called for the creation of long Covid clinics and a co-ordinated approach to the disease across health and social care in Scotland. The findings of our report were supported across the sector, and by third sector organisations such as Long Covid Scotland, Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland, Support in Mind Scotland and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. However, one year on, there are still no long Covid clinics, and there is still no co-ordinated response to the disease in Scotland.

The cabinet secretary said in his statement that long Covid clinics do not work; however, in the motion that he put to the Parliament, he said that

“The Parliament ... recognises the role of NHS boards ... to design models of care ... including long COVID clinics”,

so it is in his own motion.

In the same item of business

The Presiding Officer (Alison Johnstone) NPA
The next item of business is a debate on motion SM6-04472, in the name of Humza Yousaf, on long Covid. I invite members who wish to speak to press their requ...
The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care (Humza Yousaf) SNP
I welcome the opportunity to discuss our collective commitment to supporting the health and wellbeing of people in Scotland who are living with the long-term...
Brian Whittle (South Scotland) (Con) Con
I am grateful to the cabinet secretary for taking my intervention. Would he consider assessing certain types of long Covid as a disability, potentially bring...
Humza Yousaf SNP
It is my understanding that, under current legislation, those who are suffering from the effects of long Covid could be termed as having a disability, depend...
Alex Cole-Hamilton (Edinburgh Western) (LD) LD
I am grateful to the cabinet secretary for giving way, and for taking time, in his remarks, to talk about young people and children who suffer with long Covi...
Humza Yousaf SNP
I ask the member to forgive me—I do not know if I have the figure for children. I will have a look at that, and come back to him; perhaps we will address tha...
Pam Duncan-Glancy (Glasgow) (Lab) Lab
Can the cabinet secretary confirm whether that data collection will include data on inequalities in relation to the way that long Covid has affected differen...
Humza Yousaf SNP
As I said in response to Alex Cole-Hamilton, I think that it absolutely should. I am being up front and frank about this: I do not think that we have the lev...
Jackie Baillie (Dumbarton) (Lab) Lab
Will the cabinet secretary give way?
Humza Yousaf SNP
I will shortly. I have taken a fair number of interventions. That funding responds directly to needs that have been highlighted by boards and their learning...
Jackie Baillie Lab
Could the cabinet secretary confirm for me—because I think that clarity is important—that the £3 million that he talks about as being additional is actually ...
Humza Yousaf SNP
Yes, it is part of that £10 million fund, but what I mean by “additional” is that it is on top of what has already been spent to help to address and alleviat...
The Presiding Officer NPA
I call Sandesh Gulhane to speak to and move amendment S6M-04472.3. 15:09
Sandesh Gulhane (Glasgow) (Con) Con
It is great that this key debate on long Covid has been rescheduled. However, given the growing scale of the problem, it is many months overdue. The cabinet...
Alex Cole-Hamilton LD
Sandesh Gulhane has described his experience in the foothills of the pandemic. Does he recognise that people who had long Covid from the first wave perhaps d...
Sandesh Gulhane Con
I agree absolutely. It is important that if we offer support to sufferers of long Covid, one of the key tenets should be that that should not depend on their...
Humza Yousaf SNP
As Dr Gulhane is a clinician, he will be able to confirm that a person’s receipt of support for the long-term effects of Covid is not reliant on their having...
Sandesh Gulhane Con
Absolutely. As I said, from the conversations that the cabinet secretary and I have had, I think that he agrees with us on that point. Long Covid is hitting...
Jackie Baillie (Dumbarton) (Lab) Lab
As others have said, the debate is long overdue, having been cancelled last month to spare the cabinet secretary’s blushes because not one penny of long Covi...
Humza Yousaf SNP
Is Jackie Baillie seriously suggesting that our hard-working nurses, doctors and AHPs have not been treating people with long Covid? If they have been treati...
Jackie Baillie Lab
That is so disappointing, because, even if nobody else knows this, the cabinet secretary knows that the NHS is stretched to breaking point. It is in crisis. ...
Alex Cole-Hamilton (Edinburgh Western) (LD) LD
Finally and belatedly, we debate this devastating condition in Government time. It is shameful that the SNP-Green coalition has made sufferers wait this long...
The Presiding Officer NPA
We move to the open debate. 15:31
Evelyn Tweed (Stirling) (SNP) SNP
I very much welcome the Scottish Government’s recognition of the impact of long Covid and its commitment to help people who are suffering from that debilitat...
Alex Cole-Hamilton LD
I have heard several Government members say that a one-size-fits-all approach will not work, and that is right, but does Evelyn Tweed not recognise that, up ...
Evelyn Tweed SNP
I do not agree, and I will come on to say why. The symptoms can be life changing, as Angela, a constituent of mine, told me. She said: “Last year I was lea...
Brian Whittle (South Scotland) (Con) Con
I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak in the debate. It has taken the Scottish Government too long to recognise, document and respond to long Covid, ...
Humza Yousaf SNP
Does Brian Whittle accept that there is a mountain of evidence that long Covid clinics are inadequate, that they are ineffective and that they simply delay e...
Brian Whittle Con
As I am about to go on to tell the cabinet secretary, what I am highlighting is not a new problem for the Scottish Government. Prior to the pandemic, Scotlan...
The Presiding Officer NPA
Please speak through the chair, Mr Whittle.