ED-C-19 Inquiry 290124 Module 2A Day 9.ecl

I understand that you 22 witnesses, that although the Scottish Government and the 23 performed a role during the course of the pandemic as 23 UK Government make decisions separately as regards 24 the minister in the UK Government who acted as something 24 matters within their respective devolved and reserved 25 of a conduit between the two governments. [...] I wouldn't want to jump the gun, but I suspect that some 17 was responsible for deciding the non-pharmaceutical 17 might, in this module, want to make a point about the 18 interventions that it believed were necessary in order 18 degree of fiscal devolution that the Scottish Government 19 to curtail the spread of the virus. [...] If there were a concern on the part of the UK Government 16 Government to -- and the Scottish Parliament, to 16 that the Scottish Government tended to try to push the 17 legislate in those areas. [...] There was an intensity 5 critical elements of the pandemic response where we 5 to the range of conversations at the beginning of the 6 benefitted from having the broad shoulders of the 6 pandemic response that diminished a little as we moved 7 UK Treasury and indeed the international negotiating and 7 into a period where it appeared that the virus was in 8 purchasing power of the UK Government. [...] And, again, one of the views that I had was 24 structural timeline, is it fair to say, as I suggested 25 that we needed to have a Covid Taskforce at the centre 25 at the beginning, that at about the point we've reached 29 30 1 in the narrative, that the meetings, the four nations 1 improvement.