ED-C-19 Inquiry 160124 Module 2A Day 1.ecl

3 consistently with the way in which we have approached 3 The module seeks to focus instead on the 4 preliminary hearings in this module, that the audience 4 decision-making of the Scottish Government, which was 5 will be likely to comprise those who are interested 5 the predominant means by which the pandemic was managed 6 predominantly in the Scottish experience of the pandemic 6 in Scotland. [...] 5 that evidence and seek to look at key aspects of the 5 As I have made clear at previous hearings relating 6 role the Scottish Government and the UK Government in 6 to the module, the reason for approaching matters in 7 their interrelation, insofar as significant in the way 7 this way is to try to get to an understanding of the key 8 that the pandemic was managed in Scotland. [...] 2 from a number of groups across the UK relating, first of 3 Again, she pointed out a number of missed opportunities 3 all, to the impact on the particular groups in question, 4 during the course of the pandemic which 4 but also to the experiences of those groups during the 5 disproportionately affected women, in particular in the 5 course of the pandemic. [...] At this stage, as the M1 11 To turn, then, my Lady, to the analysis of the 11 evidence shows, although Scotland had its own minister 12 pandemic in Scotland, the ebb and flow of the pandemic 12 for resilience, part of the portfolio of the Deputy 13 in Scotland was in some regards similar to the way in 13 First Minister at the time, John Swinney, the 14 which the pandemic was experienced elsewhere. [...] This constituted the basis of the 20 of the Scottish Government's overall Covid-19 management 20 Scottish Government's four harms strategy to the ongoing 21 strategy and in light of the high burden of infection 21 management of the pandemic in Scotland which was aimed 22 and death in the care sector in Scotland.