Excess Deaths Inquiry - Scottish Government Response

Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care's response to the Committee

Dear Convener,

UK Government Health and Care Bill

I am writing further to your request, on 17 January 2022, to provide information to support your inquiry into excess deaths in Scotland since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Scottish Government is pleased to assist with the Committee’s inquiry, and has provided responses to the each of the information requests in the annex below.

The Committee’s request for information covered a range of different policy areas and data sets. Some of the information requested is already in the public domain, where this is the case we have excerpted the relevant material and signposted the source. Unfortunately it was not possible to provide all of the information requested, where we were unable to precisely meet a request we have added a note to explain this and noted if this is due to be published in the coming months.

Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any further questions or requests, my officials and I shall be happy to assist.

Kind regards,

Humza Yousaf MSP
Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care

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