Question reference: S5W-30786
- Asked by: Tom Mason, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 17 July 2020
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Current status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 4 August 2020
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many enquiries regarding COVID-19 support it has received from businesses in each of the last four months, broken down by parliamentary region.
Answer
The Scottish Government has received unprecedented levels of correspondence since March 2020 which led to a decentralised approach to the preparation of replies and associated data capture. The best available data available from these different systems confirm that the Scottish Government has received 11,931 letters and e-mails in relation to economic COVID-19 issues in the last four months from 30 March to week ending 26 July.
Month | Total Correspondence cases in relation to economic COVID-19 issues |
April | 3704 |
May | 4007 |
June | 2263 |
July (to w/e 26 July) | 1957 |
TOTAL | 11931 |
The data captured via correspondence systems does not allow identification of correspondents as businesses, likewise as most correspondence is submitted via email the data cannot be broken down by parliamentary region.