The Scottish government was inadequately prepared for the Covid-19 pandemic, a public inquiry has ruled.

The UK Covid Inquiry said both UK and Scottish governments “failed their citizens” by not doing enough to properly plan for the crisis.

It found Scottish ministers adopted flawed UK government resilience plans without adapting them for Scotland’s needs.

Inquiry chairwoman Baroness Hallett has called for fundamental reform of public health emergency planning.

More than 235,000 people died in the UK with Covid listed as one of the causes on their death certificate – including more than 17,000 in Scotland – after the first cases were detected early in 2020.

The UK Covid Inquiry has published its findings on whether the risk of a pandemic was properly identified and if the country was ready for it.

Among its findings are:

• Ministers had been planning for a pandemic – but had based most of their preparations on flu.
• A UK-wide Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Strategy – produced in 2011 following the swine flu outbreak two years before – was “simply copied” by the Scottish government without any adaptation to local circumstances.
• The Scottish government and other devolved administrations “did not act with sufficient urgency, or at all” on the findings of previous emergency planning exercise.
• The parts of the Scottish government responsible for emergency planning were subject to a number of reorganisations which left them further from the centre of government and created some confusion.
• There was a seven-month period in the year before Covid where the Scottish government officials tasked with preparing for a pandemic did not meet. This was because they had been diverted to deal with the fallout from the Brexit negotiations.
• There was a “lack of adequate leadership, coordination and oversight” for pandemic planning across all of the UK governments in the years leading up to the Covid outbreak.

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