Oral QuestionDepartment for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

What assessment he has made of the potential effect of the Community Renewal Fund on local communities’ preparedness for the introduction of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund in the Scottish Borders.

Tabled: 23 November 2021Answered: 29 November 2021

Asked by

John Lamont

ConservativeBerwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Answer from Hansard

The Prime Minister

What my hon. Friend describes is how health services in Scotland are utterly broken under the SNP, whether it is people waiting too long for mental health support in his constituency, or the Wishaw neonatal unit in Hamilton, which the SNP is threatening to downgrade. In 2021, the SNP Government said they would recruit 1,000 more community mental health workers. They utterly failed to do so. If they had a plan to fix Scotland’s NHS, they would have done it by now. Scotland needs a change of direction.