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Scottish Government

Devolved government of Scotland

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Dec 14, 2025
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Who made the final decision about new glsgow hospital site

Available reporting and public documents show that decisions about the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) campus sit within NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) governance and were scrutinis...

Dec 16, 2025
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Scottish Hospitals Inquiry ignores the sewage works

The Scottish Hospitals Inquiry has repeatedly heard staff describe sewage smells, leaks and proximity to Shieldhall wastewater treatment works near the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus; witn...

Oct 27, 2025
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How does the Secret Service budget for protecting Trump during golf trips?

The core claim is that the U.S. Secret Service has incurred substantial taxpayer costs to secure former President Trump during golf trips, including contracts for golf cart rentals and portable toilet...

Jan 19, 2026

What did the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry conclude about the QEUH water system and infections?

The Scottish Hospitals Inquiry heard closing submissions in which NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) shifted its position and accepted that, on the balance of probabilities, some patient infection...

Jan 18, 2026

What were the formal dates of Scottish Government approval and Board minutes for the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital business case in 2008?

The documentary trail offered in the reporting indicates the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital outline business case (OBC) was assessed and approved internally by NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde in Marc...

Jan 18, 2026

When was decision taken to choose shieldhall rather than cowglen for new Glasgow hospital

The choice to locate Glasgow’s new major acute hospital on the Shieldhall/Southern General site — rather than the Cowglen option — emerged from a long programme of appraisal and consultation that bega...

Jan 18, 2026

What specific board minutes or procurement records show the formal decision to choose Southern General/Shieldhall over Cowglen in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde?

Publicly available Oversight Board minutes for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde are hosted on gov.scot and list meetings from 2019–2020 but the documents surfaced in the reporting do not, on their face, ...

Jan 17, 2026

What would independent Scotland armed forces comprise

An independent Scotland’s armed forces, as outlined by Scottish Government planning documents and party materials, would be a conventional three‑service force — land, sea and air — overseen by a Joint...

Jan 8, 2026

What did the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service ruling say in detail about Dr Tom Gilhooly’s misconduct?

The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) found that Dr Tom Gilhooly’s prescribing breached accepted standards of care by using unlicensed or off‑label medicines without adequate consideration...

Dec 31, 2025

Overseas wealthy landowners should pay more tax in Scotland

A targeted increase in taxes on overseas wealthy landowners in Scotland would address clear gaps in the current system—chiefly revenue leakage, concentrated ownership, and lack of local control—but fa...

Dec 31, 2025

How can Scottish tax be levelled fairly on home based Scots and immigrant land owners alike

A fair levelling of Scottish tax between home‑based Scots and immigrant landowners requires shifting tax weight toward land values, closing transactional loopholes, and reforming local property taxati...

Dec 31, 2025

How does the Register of Overseas Entities and Scotland’s RCI change the ability to trace beneficial ownership of land?

The Register of Overseas Entities (ROE) and Scotland’s Register of Persons Holding a Controlled Interest in Land (RCI) together tighten the net on hidden owners by requiring overseas entities and cont...

Dec 31, 2025

What examples exist of high‑profile Scottish estates owned via Jersey or Guernsey companies and who are the ultimate beneficiaries?

Several high‑profile Scottish estates have been held through companies incorporated in Jersey or Guernsey (and other Crown dependencies), including Ardfin, Cluny, Eilean Aigas, Dewar and Raeshaw, and ...

Dec 31, 2025

Why can offshore companies in the tax havens of Guernsey and Jersey own Scottish land

Offshore companies incorporated in Jersey and Guernsey can and do own Scottish land because the existing UK and Scottish legal framework permits overseas corporate proprietors, the Channel Islands pro...

Dec 14, 2025

Health Minister Susan Deacon made the final decision about new glsgow hospital site

Available sources do not state that Susan Deacon personally made the final decision about the new Glasgow hospital site; contemporary coverage and records discuss decisions by NHS bodies, ministers an...

Oct 28, 2025

Was 100M spent on golf for President Trump

The claim that “$100M was spent on golf for President Trump” is not supported by available reporting; contemporary records show at Trump properties early in his second term and separate UK reporting o...