Dec 18, 2020
SOME minutes of technical meetings discussing Jersey’s Covid response were published yesterday afternoon – after months of delays.
Deputy Kevin Pamplin Picture: ROB CURRIE. (29850869)
The government has been heavily criticised after failing to publish the minutes of the Scientific Technical Advisory Cell meetings after July, despite a States decision requiring them to do so.
Ministers have always said the medical professionals involved in those meetings were busy co-ordinating the response to Covid and juggling their day jobs and therefore signing off the minutes for publication was not a priority.
Minutes for meetings up to September have been published.
In the States yesterday, Senator John Le Fondré denied that ministers were showing contempt for the States Assembly by ignoring the approved proposition from Deputy Kevin Pamplin about publishing the minutes.