what there was by way of planning from departments. the e mail sent from departments. the e mail sent from dominic cummings and text messages, well, what messages he sent, it s clear that the civil contingencies secretariat had not been able to, firstly, provide it essential plan other than this action document or been able to obtain plans from the other departments and provide them to number ten. that was a serious error, was it not? the secretariat wasn t resource error, was it not? the secretariat wasn t resource to error, was it not? the secretariat wasn t resource to hold error, was it not? the secretariat wasn t resource to hold these - error, was it not? the secretariat l wasn t resource to hold these plans a resource to hold these plans across many departments. it was lead governing departments that were responsible not only for their own plans but for ensuring that the departments who would be supporting them on a risk area for which they were responsible had p
strong relationships, institutional and personal with the devolved administrations and spent time with each of theirfirst administrations and spent time with each of their first ministers, told them i was there cabinet secretary as well. they should think of me and supporting them as well. i wanted to make sure that the devolved administrations, recognising the different districts, the more collaboration the better. the devolved administrations were invited to attend the groups. was that a writer an invitation? it would be an invitation. cabinet committees do not normally involve devolved administrations for obvious reasons. they weren t included routinely in the international one because that is entirely preserved, but they were asked to join the others. and the expectation was that they were included. it wasn tjust they were included. it wasn tjust they would be invited ad hoc, they were part of that process. that was very much the intention. find were part of that process