The money can be used to buy additional equipment for staff having to work from home including laptops.
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Coronavirus in Scotland - Updates on the pandemic
All the latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic in Scotland - including the death toll due to the virus reaching 76
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Coronavirus in Scotland - Updates on the pandemic
All the latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic in Scotland - including the death toll due to the virus reaching 76
UK Parliament shuts down for a month
Commons and Lords will stay empty until after the Easter break, to combat the spread of coronavirus.
Corbyn bows out from PMQs with campaigning vow
The Labour leader says his "voice will not be stilled" as he faces Boris Johnson for the final time.
What is in emergency coronavirus legislation?
The new bill giving ministers unprecedented powers is set to become law after clearing the House of Lords.
As it happened: Stormont debates emergency legislation
MLAs debate emergency coronavirus legislation on Tuesday 24 March.
Emergency law approved by slimmed-down assembly
Sweeping new curbs on everyday life mean the assembly is reduced to 15 AMs.
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Coronavirus in Scotland - Updates on the pandemic
All the latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic in Scotland - including the death toll due to the virus reaching 76
UK Parliament shuts down for a month
Commons and Lords will stay empty until after the Easter break, to combat the spread of coronavirus.
Corbyn bows out from PMQs with campaigning vow
The Labour leader says his "voice will not be stilled" as he faces Boris Johnson for the final time.
What is in emergency coronavirus legislation?
The new bill giving ministers unprecedented powers is set to become law after clearing the House of Lords.
As it happened: Stormont debates emergency legislation
MLAs debate emergency coronavirus legislation on Tuesday 24 March.
Emergency law approved by slimmed-down assembly
Sweeping new curbs on everyday life mean the assembly is reduced to 15 AMs.
UK Parliament shuts down for a month
Commons and Lords will stay empty until after the Easter break, to combat the spread of coronavirus.
Corbyn bows out from PMQs with campaigning vow
The Labour leader says his "voice will not be stilled" as he faces Boris Johnson for the final time.
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Robbie Meredith
BBC News NI Education Correspondent
A new multimillion pound scheme to provide daycare for key workers' children is announced.
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Peter Barnes
Political analyst, BBC News
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is deputising "where necessary" for Boris Johnson, who remains in hospital with coronavirus. But what does that mean in reality?
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There is "no prospect" of lockdown measures being lifted after the Easter weekend, Nicola Sturgeon says.
Read moreFM to take part in special Q&A with opposition politicians
The Scottish Parliament is to host a special Q&A with the first minister on Thursday.
Presiding Officer Ken Macintosh has written to MSPs, saying testing has been done to allow party leaders to reach Nicola Sturgeon remotely.
If the experiment proceeds smoothly, there is scope to expand and allow questions to come from all MSPs in the following weeks.
The Presiding Officer wrote: "Like other legislatures, colleagues here have been very busy in recent weeks examining and testing a range of options for virtual working and I am pleased to say that the progress they are making is very encouraging indeed.
"In the first instance, the Parliamentary Bureau is exploring holding a leaders' virtual question time where party leaders can question the First Minister."
The session is expected to take place from 12:30 tomorrow and last 40 minutes.
The assembly says it has been approached by parliaments around the world for advice.
Read moreVirtual proceedings continue at Welsh Assembly
The Welsh Assembly is to extend the time it remains closed to the public to 31 May.
But virtual proceedings will continue on Wednesday, with more AMs taking part than in last week’s session.
It will be broadcast live online from 13:30 BST.
The assembly said other parliaments from around the world have sought its advice since the first virtual meeting last week.
Marie-Louise Connolly
BBC News NI Health Correspondent
Political rows should not interfere with public health, says BBC News NI's health correspondent.
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Julian O'Neill
BBC News NI Home Affairs Correspondent
They are to be freed temporarily as part of a contingency plan to deal with Covid-19.
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Jayne McCormack
BBC News NI Political Reporter
The clarion call for years has been for politics to be taken out of health, but is that possible, asks Jayne McCormack.
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