Extracts from Scottish Parliament Members’ Virtual Question Time: Environment and Rural Affairs - Apr 24
Bruce Crawford (Stirling) (SNP): Does the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Economy and Tourism share my concerns about the effects that the Covid-19 emergency is having on small to medium-sized hotels...
Saturday, 25 April 2020 09:33
Extract from Scottish Parliament meeting of the COVID-19 Committee - Apr 24
The Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution, Europe and External Affairs (Michael Russell):...We also need to look forward to what the First Minister yesterday called the “new normal”...
Saturday, 25 April 2020 09:30
Clinical trial approved to help the NHS treat COVID-19 patients using plasma
Up to 5,000 severely ill patients with COVID-19 could soon be treated each week with plasma from those who have recovered...
Saturday, 25 April 2020 09:11
Communities Secretary welcomes response to his call for parks to open
He welcomed the reopening of parks across the country following his request at last Saturday’s Downing Street press conference...
Saturday, 25 April 2020 09:08
Hidden: children at risk during lockdown
Children’s Commissioner for England creates local area profiles of child vulnerability during Covid-19...
Saturday, 25 April 2020 00:01
Children at Risk During Lockdown - NEU comments
Commenting on the Children’s Commission for England’s data release showing local area profiles for the numbers of vulnerable children at risk during the Coronavirus emergency...
Saturday, 25 April 2020 00:01
LGA responds to Children's Commissioner report on vulnerable children
Responding to the Children’s Commissioner announcement to create local area profiles of child vulnerability during COVID-19, Cllr Judith Blake, Chair of the Local Government Association’s Children and Young People Board, said...
Saturday, 25 April 2020 00:01
Government must protect vulnerable children with emergency taskforce say Lib Dems
Responding to the Children’s Commissioner for England creating local area profiles of child vulnerability during Covid-19, Liberal Democrat Education spokesperson Layla Moran said...
Saturday, 25 April 2020 00:01
Secretary of State for Transport delivers daily coronavirus update (24 April)
Announcing measures to ensure transport boosts the national response to COVID-19 and paying tribute to the transport workers who have kept vital freight and passenger services running...
Friday, 24 April 2020 19:14
No return to business as usual on workers’ rights after coronavirus crisis - Labour
There must be no return to “business as usual” on workers’ rights when we emerge from the coronavirus crisis, Labour says...
Friday, 24 April 2020 17:31