The Scottish Government “had no real strategy” for the pandemic in the early part of 2020, the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has found.

Baroness Heather Hallett released a more than 700-page report on Thursday on the Government decision-making during the pandemic and found the devolved administrations’ response early in 2020 as being “inadequate” and too reliant on the UK Government .

The report found that it took too long for the issue to be escalated to the highest levels of Government, with the first mention to Scotland’s Cabinet coming at the end of January.

In her evidence to the inquiry, former first minister Nicola Sturgeon said “a considerable amount of work” had been done between January and March to prepare for a possible pandemic.

“The Scottish Government Resilience Room had b

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