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Scottish Parliament rejects request to question SNP over the discharge of Covid-19 patients to care homes
Scottish Labour's Neil Findlay called on Holyrood to allow MSPs to question SNP ministers when they are recalled on Monday to pay respects to Philip Windsor
Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh
REQUESTS to question the SNP government about its admission that mistakes were made in the discharge of Covid-19 patients to care homes throughout the pandemic have been rejected by the Scottish Parliament.
Holyrood’s presiding officer Ken Macintosh has denied a request by outgoing Labour MSP Neil Findlay to allow opposition parties to question ministers on Monday about the Covid-19 death toll reaching 10,000 and the care home discharge policy.
The Scottish Parliament will be recalled to allow members to pay their respects to Prince Philip, with Mr Findlay calling for time to be made after the admission by Health Secretary Jeane Freeman last week that moving patients to care homes without precautions had been a “mistake.”
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