Matt Hancock reassured ministers and civil servants that pandemic preparations were “absolutely fine” while there was no plan in place, a former top official has told the Covid inquiry.
Giving evidence to the official inquiry yesterday, Helen MacNamara, who served as deputy cabinet secretary, said that the then-health secretary suggested in meetings that something was under control before days or weeks later officials would discover “that was not in fact the case”. She said that it was “very unusual” that there was a “pattern of being reassured that something was absolutely fine and then discovering it was very, very far from fine”, she said.
When discussing the culture in Downing Street, she added that Coronavirus rules were broken on a daily basis with hundreds of civil servants and ministers potentially at the risk of being fined. However, despite a session lasting several hours, inquiry lawyers only briefly touched on her own contribution to the culture in No 10, after receiving a fixed penalty notice for her own attendance of lockdown parties.
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