The Scottish Government has denied reports that Jason Leitch deleted WhatsApp messages every day during the Covid-19 pandemic and insisted all guidance was followed. Ministers have rejected the suggestion and insisted that all record management guidance was followed, adding that thousands of documents have been sent to the probe.
THE Scottish Government has denied reports that Jason Leitch deleted WhatsApp messages every day during the Covid-19 pandemic and insisted all guidance was followed.
It comes after the UK Covid-19 Inquiry’s legal team has said it believes the “majority” of WhatsApp messages shared among Scottish Government officials during the pandemic “have not been retained”.Deputy First Minister Shona Robison insisted that it was “not the culture” within the Scottish Government to use WhatsApps for decision making.
“This includes providing any requested material that we hold,” she said in a statement released on Friday. The Deputy First Minister said that 13,000 documents drawn from the official record had been sent to the UK inquiry by Scottish Government officials, as well as “the corporate and personal statements requested”.
We told how on Thursday the Scottish Government said it needs a “legal basis” to release certain electronic messages to the Covid-19 inquiry, after the issue dominatedJamie Dawson KC told the probe on Thursday morning the Scottish Government had been asked for “all communication” relating to decisions made during the pandemic, such as informal messages on WhatsApp and other text-based programs.
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